Cultural and Geographical Data
Cities, Towns and Villages of Central Andes
data: location (geogr. degree), name of town
geogr. location: Central Andes, South America
data type: point data (339 data points)
file format: ASCII- file
file size: 6 KByte
example from data file:
C Most important towns
C
1 1
-70.40000 -23.64998 'Antofagasta'
-68.92712 -22.45387 'Calama'
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source: AG Gravimetrie (FU Berlin), atlas, maps 1:1 Mio
Cities, Towns and Villages of Central and Southern Andes
data: location (geogr. degree), name of town
geogr. location: South America, south of 14°S and west of 58°W
data type: point data (469 data points)
file format: ASCII- file
file size: 20 KByte
example from data file:
C Capitals in SA
C
1 1
-66.933 10.50 'Caracas' 'CARACAS'
-58.002 6.80 'Georgetown' 'GEORGETOWN'
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source: low resolution data digitized by AG Gravimetrie (FU Berlin), revised and supplemented (Southern Andes) by M. Krause, April 1999
Political Borders and Coast Lines of Central Andes
data: location (geogr. degree) for political borders and coast lines
geogr. location: Central Andes, South America
data type: line data
file format: ASCII- file
file size: 91 KByte
example from data file:
C Line data
C Leeds File (High resolution)
C
1 1
-73.80082 -7.11694
-73.78917 -7.12611
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source: D. Fairhead (Leeds), AG Gravimetrie (FU Berlin)
Coast Line of South America
data: location (geogr. degree) of coast lines derived from USGS topography, low resolution
geogr. location: South America
data type: line data
file format: ASCII- file
file size: 294 KByte
example from data file:
C coast line calculated from smoothed
C USGS topographic grid
C
1 1
-67.32535 -55.95017
-67.33245 -55.92598
-67.33315 -55.91729
-67.32833 -55.90831
-67.31841 -55.90164
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source: calculated from regridded (cell size: 0.05 degree) USGS topography (see chapter 3.2.2) by S.Schmidt (AG Gravity), FU Berlin, Nov. 1997
Mountains of Central Andes
data: location (geogr. degree), altitude (m), name of mountain; location (geogr. degree), name of active volcano
geogr. location: Central Andes, South America
data type: point data (90 data points)
file format: ASCII- file
file size: 3 KByte
example from data file:
C Active Volcanoes
C
11 6
-68.55251 -20.72506 5165. 'Irruputuncu'
-68.48331 -20.93330 5940. 'Olca'
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source: D. Fairhead (Leeds), AG Gravimetrie (FU Berlin)
Rivers (Very Low Resolution) of Central Andes
data: location (geogr. degree), low resolution data
geogr. location: Central Andes, South America
data type: line data
file format: ASCII- file
file size: 31 KByte
example from data file:
C line data
C 'RIO SALADO'
C
1 4
-65.10001 -24.30001
-65.88331 -24.48331
-65.85001 -24.70002
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source: D. Fairhead (Leeds), AG Gravimetrie (FU Berlin)
Salars and Lakes of Central Andes
data: location (geogr. degree) of salars and lakes
geogr. location: Central Andes, South America
data type: line data
file format: ASCII- file
file size: 49 KByte
example from data file:
C
C 'SALAR DE ARIZARO'
C
1 1
-67.72668 -25.08363
-67.74111 -25.06918
-67.75723 -25.06166
-67.77583 -25.05556
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source: D. Fairhead (Leeds), topographic maps (1:250.000), digitized by AG Gravimetrie (FU Berlin)
Morphological and Geostructural Units of South America
data: geograph. coord. (geogr. degree), name of unit
geogr. location: South America
data type: line data
file format: ASCII- file
file size: 7 KByte
example from data file:
C Attribute indices used:
C 2: Geostructural units in South America
C 3: Text description of geomorphological units in South America
C
1 2
-67.57401 -49.41030
-68.11742 -49.21312
-69.14825 -48.66122
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source: generalized by Johannes Palmer, AG Gravimetrie, AG Reutter, included in database prior 1990.
Volcanoes of Central Andes
data: sorted by index for chemical (basaltic, andesitic, ...), number of volcano, location (geograph. degree), age from .. to .. (Mio years), Index for Activism, Chemismus
geogr. location: Central Andes (28.7° to 17.7°S)
data type: point data (840 data points)
file format: ASCII- file
file size: 8 KByte
example from data file:
C 602 Volcanoes, without declaration of chemism
C
607 1
2 -69.45001 -17.71670
C
C 65 andesitic volcanoes
64 2
1, -69.8000, -17.7000, , , 'AP', 'AN'
4, -69.7500, -17.7667, , , 'AP', 'AN'
71, -68.5000, -19.1167, 1.8000, .0001, 'I ', 'AN'
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source: data compiled by Salfity, Saltan, Viramonte, Omarini, Chong; Argentina, pers. communication correlated information: Dipl.-thesis: Elke Benner (Uni Bonn,1988)
Volcanoes (Remote Sensing Studies) of Central Andes
data: number of volcano, location (geograph. degree), elevation (m) , height of edifice (m), deposit, cone and crater diameter (km), flow length of longest lava flow (km), stage of erosion, volcano volume, geol. segment after Wood et al. (1987), sheet, number of map, volcano name
geogr. location: Central Andes (28.5° to 13.5° S)
data type: point data (1113 data points)
file format: ASCII- file
file size: 30 KByte
example from data file:
C permission granted by Springer Verlag for internal use (Apr. 1998)
C catalogue of all identifiable volc. landforms in the Central Andes
C compiled by McLaughlin, Bury, Wood, Francis & de Silva
C
2,- 74.517,- 13.783, 4469, 319, 13, 13, -1, 0, 5, 14, 'A', 'comp?', 'SD 18- 07', ,'Unknown'
3,- 74.467,- 13.950, 4639, 439, 23,17.5, -1, 0, 5, 77, 'A', 'comp', 'SD 18- 07', 'Cer.','Llehuecclla'
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source: De Silva, S.L. & Francis, P.W (1991)
Peru-Chile Trench
data: geograph. coord. (geogr. degree)
geogr. location: latitude: from 13°N to 57°S
data type: line data
file format: ASCII- file
file size: 2 KByte
example from data file:
C line data
C Peru-Chile Trench
1 1
-92.82754 -13.40703
-91.86253 -12.35844
-90.58906 -12.34015
-89.90030 -11.89568
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source: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California