Global Lithological Map Database v1.0 (gridded to 0.5° spatial resolution)
type: Dataset
creator: Jörg Hartmann
creator: Nils Moosdorf
publisher: PANGAEA
  type: Organization
  disambiguating description: Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
included in data catalog: PANGAEA
  type: DataCatalog
  disambiguating description: Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
date published: 2012-09-12
description: Lithology describes the geochemical, mineralogical, and physical properties of rocks. It plays a key role in many processes at the Earth surface, especially the fluxes of matter to soils, ecosystems, rivers, and oceans. Understanding these processes at the global scale requires a high resolution description of lithology. A new high resolution global lithological map (GLiM) was assembled from existing regional geological maps translated into lithological information with the help of regional literature. The GLiM represents the rock types of the Earth surface using 1,235,400 polygons. The lithological classification consists of three levels. The first level contains 16 lithological classes comparable to previously applied definitions in global lithological maps. The additional two levels contain 12 and 14 subclasses, respectively, which describe more specific rock attributes. […]
abstract: Lithology describes the geochemical, mineralogical, and physical properties of rocks. It plays a key role in many processes at the Earth surface, especially the fluxes of matter to soils, ecosystems, rivers, and oceans. Understanding these processes at the global scale requires a high resolution description of lithology. A new high resolution global lithological map (GLiM) was assembled from existing regional geological maps translated into lithological information with the help of regional literature. The GLiM represents the rock types of the Earth surface using 1,235,400 polygons. The lithological classification consists of three levels. The first level contains 16 lithological classes comparable to previously applied definitions in global lithological maps. The additional two levels contain 12 and 14 subclasses, respectively, which describe more specific rock attributes. According to the GLiM, the Earth is covered by 64 % sediments (a third of which is carbonates), 13 % metamorphics, 7 % plutonics, and 6 % volcanics, and 10% are covered by water or ice. The high resolution of the GLiM allows observation of regional lithological distributions which often vary from the global average. The GLiM enables regional analysis of Earth surface processes at global scales.
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license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
conditions of access: unrestricted
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language: en
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Jörg Hartmann
type: Person
family name: Hartmann
given name: Jörg

Nils Moosdorf
type: Person
family name: Moosdorf
given name: Nils

The new global lithological map database GLiM: A representation of rock properties at the Earth surface
type: CreativeWork
type: PublicationIssue
creator: Jens Hartmann
creator: Nils Moosdorf
date published: 2012
issue number: 13
pagination: Q12004
is part of: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
is based on: Global Lithological Map Database v1.0 (gridded to 0.5° spatial resolution)

Jens Hartmann
type: Person
family name: Hartmann
given name: Jens