Data and Sample repositories

Ice core

How to access IODP and ICDP data

National Core Store 

The NZ National Core Store houses petroleum, minerals and coal core cuttings and samples, and has fit-for-purpose viewing facilities.

Find out more about the NZ National Core Store here(external link).

Micropaleontological Reference Center (MRC) Collections 

GNS Science has one of five international  Micropaleontological Reference Centers (MRC), and the only one in the Southern Hemisphere, holding identical sets of representative microfossil preparations of calcareous nannofossils, foraminifera, radiolarians and diatoms from Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) cores from a wide range of geographical areas and geological ages.  

The MRC holds extensive DSDP/ODP/IODP collections of processed and unprocessed microfossil samples, resulting from decades of biostratigraphic and paleoclimate research in the Southwest Pacific and Southern Ocean, by local micropaleontologists and overseas colleagues.

More information on the MRCs can be found here(external link)

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