The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project

Úna C Farrell¹, Rifaat Samawi², Savitha Anjanappa³, Roman Klykov³, Oyeleye O Adeboye⁴, Heda Agic⁵, Anne-Sofie C Ahm⁶, Thomas H Boag⁷, Fred Bowyer⁸, Jochen J Brocks⁹, Tessa N Brunoir¹⁰, Donald E Canfield¹¹, Xiaoyan Chen¹², Meng Cheng¹³, Matthew O Clarkson¹⁴, Devon B Cole¹⁵, David R Cordie¹⁶, Peter W Crockford¹⁷, Huan Cui^{18

19}, Tais W Dahl²⁰, Lucas D Mouro²¹, Keith Dewing²², Stephen Q Dornbos²³, Nadja Drabon²⁴, Julie A Dumoulin²⁵, Joseph F Emmings²⁶, Cecilia R Endriga², Tiffani A Fraser²⁷, Robert R Gaines²⁸, Richard M Gaschnig²⁹, Timothy M Gibson⁷, Geoffrey J Gilleaudeau³⁰, Benjamin C Gill³¹, Karin Goldberg³², Romain Guilbaud³³, Galen P Halverson³⁴, Emma U Hammarlund³⁵, Kalev G Hantsoo³⁶, Miles A Henderson³⁷, Malcolm S W Hodgskiss³⁸, Tristan J Horner³⁹, Jon M Husson⁴⁰, Benjamin Johnson⁴¹, Pavel Kabanov²², C Brenhin Keller⁴², Julien Kimmig⁴³, Michael A Kipp⁴⁴, Andrew H Knoll⁴⁵, Timmu Kreitsmann⁴⁶, Marcus Kunzmann⁴⁷, Florian Kurzweil⁴⁸, Matthew A LeRoy³¹, Chao Li¹³, Alex G Lipp⁴⁹, David K Loydell⁵⁰, Xinze Lu⁵¹, Francis A Macdonald⁵, Joseph M Magnall⁵², Kaarel Mänd⁵³, Akshay Mehra⁴², Michael J Melchin⁵⁴, Austin J Miller⁵¹, N Tanner Mills⁵⁵, Chiza N Mwinde⁵⁶, Brennan O'Connell⁵⁷, Lawrence M Och⁵⁸, Frantz Ossa Ossa⁵⁹, Anais Pagès⁶⁰, Kärt Paiste⁶¹, Camille A Partin⁶², Shanan E Peters⁶³, Peter Petrov⁶⁴, Tiffany L Playter⁶⁵, Stephanie Plaza-Torres⁶⁶, Susannah M Porter⁵, Simon W Poulton⁸, Sara B Pruss⁶⁷, Sylvain Richoz⁶⁸, Samantha R Ritzer², Alan D Rooney⁷, Swapan K Sahoo⁶⁹, Shane D Schoepfer⁷⁰, Judith A Sclafani², Yanan Shen¹², Oliver Shorttle³⁸, Sarah P Slotznick⁴², Emily F Smith³⁶, Sam Spinks⁴⁷, Richard G Stockey², Justin V Strauss⁴², Eva E Stüeken⁷¹, Sabrina Tecklenburg², Danielle Thomson⁷², Nicholas J Tosca⁷³, Gabriel J Uhlein⁷⁴, Maoli N Vizcaíno², Huajian Wang⁷⁵, Tristan White⁷, Philip R Wilby²⁶, Christina R Woltz⁵, Rachel A Wood⁷⁶, Lei Xiang⁷⁷, Inessa A Yurchenko⁷⁸, Tianran Zhang⁴², Noah J Planavsky⁷, Kimberly V Lau⁷⁹, David T Johnston²⁴, Erik A Sperling²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
² Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
³ Aionis, Los Gatos, California, USA.
⁴ Boone Pickens School of Geology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.
⁵ Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
⁶ Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
⁷ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁸ School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
⁹ Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.
¹¹ Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
¹² School of Earth and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
¹³ State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
¹⁴ Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁵ School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
¹⁶ Division of Physical, Computational, and Mathematical Sciences, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
¹⁷ Earth and Planetary Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
¹⁸ Equipe Géomicrobiologie, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Université de Paris, Paris, France.
¹⁹ Stable Isotope Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
²⁰ GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
²¹ Instituto de Geociências, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
²² Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
²³ Department of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
²⁴ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
²⁵ U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
²⁶ British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK.
²⁷ Yukon Geological Survey, Government of Yukon, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
²⁸ Department of Geology, Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA.
²⁹ Department of Environmental Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.
³⁰ Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
³¹ Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
³² Department of Geology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.
³³ Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France.
³⁴ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences/Geotop, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
³⁵ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
³⁶ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³⁷ Department of Geosciences, University of Texas Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas, USA.
³⁸ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
³⁹ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴⁰ Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴¹ Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, USA.
⁴² Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
⁴³ Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴⁴ Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴⁶ Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
⁴⁷ Australian Resources Research Centre, CSIRO Mineral Resources, Kensington, Western Australia, Australia.
⁴⁸ Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
⁴⁹ Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁵⁰ School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.
⁵¹ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
⁵² GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany.
⁵³ Department of Geology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁵⁴ Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
⁵⁵ Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
⁵⁶ Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁵⁷ School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁵⁸ Dr. von Moos AG, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵⁹ Department of Geosciences, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
⁶⁰ Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, Government of Western Australia, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.
⁶¹ Faculty of Science and Technology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁶² Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
⁶³ Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
⁶⁴ Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
⁶⁵ Alberta Geological Survey, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁶⁶ Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
⁶⁷ Department of Geosciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶⁸ Department of Geology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
⁶⁹ Equinor, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁷⁰ Geoscience and Natural Resources, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA.
⁷¹ School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
⁷² Shell Canada, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁷³ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁷⁴ Department of Geology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁷⁵ Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, China National Petroleum Corporation, Beijing, China.
⁷⁶ School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁷⁷ State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing, China.
⁷⁸ Chevron Technical Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁷⁹ Department of Geosciences, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.

PMID: 34219351
PMCID: PMC9291056
DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12462

The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project

Úna C Farrell et al. Geobiology. 2021 Nov.

. 2021 Nov;19(6):545-556.

doi: 10.1111/gbi.12462. Epub 2021 Jul 5.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
² Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
³ Aionis, Los Gatos, California, USA.
⁴ Boone Pickens School of Geology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.
⁵ Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
⁶ Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
⁷ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁸ School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
⁹ Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.
¹¹ Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
¹² School of Earth and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
¹³ State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
¹⁴ Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁵ School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
¹⁶ Division of Physical, Computational, and Mathematical Sciences, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
¹⁷ Earth and Planetary Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
¹⁸ Equipe Géomicrobiologie, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Université de Paris, Paris, France.
¹⁹ Stable Isotope Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
²⁰ GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
²¹ Instituto de Geociências, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
²² Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
²³ Department of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
²⁴ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
²⁵ U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
²⁶ British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK.
²⁷ Yukon Geological Survey, Government of Yukon, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
²⁸ Department of Geology, Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA.
²⁹ Department of Environmental Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.
³⁰ Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
³¹ Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
³² Department of Geology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.
³³ Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France.
³⁴ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences/Geotop, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
³⁵ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
³⁶ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³⁷ Department of Geosciences, University of Texas Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas, USA.
³⁸ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
³⁹ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴⁰ Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴¹ Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, USA.
⁴² Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
⁴³ Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴⁴ Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴⁶ Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
⁴⁷ Australian Resources Research Centre, CSIRO Mineral Resources, Kensington, Western Australia, Australia.
⁴⁸ Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
⁴⁹ Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁵⁰ School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.
⁵¹ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
⁵² GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany.
⁵³ Department of Geology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁵⁴ Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
⁵⁵ Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
⁵⁶ Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁵⁷ School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁵⁸ Dr. von Moos AG, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵⁹ Department of Geosciences, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
⁶⁰ Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, Government of Western Australia, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.
⁶¹ Faculty of Science and Technology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁶² Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
⁶³ Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
⁶⁴ Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
⁶⁵ Alberta Geological Survey, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁶⁶ Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
⁶⁷ Department of Geosciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶⁸ Department of Geology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
⁶⁹ Equinor, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁷⁰ Geoscience and Natural Resources, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA.
⁷¹ School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
⁷² Shell Canada, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁷³ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁷⁴ Department of Geology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁷⁵ Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, China National Petroleum Corporation, Beijing, China.
⁷⁶ School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁷⁷ State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing, China.
⁷⁸ Chevron Technical Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁷⁹ Department of Geosciences, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.

PMID: 34219351
PMCID: PMC9291056
DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12462

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Keywords: Earth history; consortium; database; geochemistry; website.

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Figures

**FIGURE 1**
The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project (SGP) is an open, collaborative consortium focused on understanding how the Earth has changed through time through analyses of large sedimentary geochemical datasets

**FIGURE 2**
Simplified schema showing tables and table relationships in the SGP database (https://ufarrell.github.io/sgp_phase1/ for a detailed description). Tables are grouped according to the kind of information they store. Analytical tables (orange) are from the British Geological Survey model (Watson et al., 2014). Geographical, geological (green), and sample (red) tables are primarily based on natural history museum databases. “Housekeeping” tables (purple) record information such as how samples are grouped into projects, where they are stored, and who has contributed contextual information

**FIGURE 3**
Geographic distribution of samples in the Phase 1 dataset, separated by our three main data sources (SGP direct entry, USGS CMIBS, and USGS NGDB)

**FIGURE 4**
Distribution by age and continent for SGP direct entry data (a). Distribution by age for SGP, USGS CMIBS, and USGS NGDB data (a small number of samples (489) with ages >2500 Ma are not included in the figure) (b)

**FIGURE 5**
Representation of lithologies in the Phase 1 dataset. Note that most unclassified samples from SGP direct entry and USGS CMIBS will be fine‐grained clastic rocks (e.g., shale), whereas USGS NGDB unclassified samples are more heterogeneous

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