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An information system is needed to restore access to published information, now so voluminous that suitable levels of familiarity with it cannot be maintained by conventional nonelectronic scholarly devices. The services of the system should be available to petrologists via mail or remote terminal, and should provide, as requested, either retrieval or reduction of data contained in its base. The base should contain chemical, geological, mineralogical, and petrographic information about specimens for which full descriptions have been published. Provisional plans for construction of such a base are briefly reviewed.
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Chayes, F. On the need, design, and prospects for an electronic information system serving igneous petrology. Mathematical Geology 7, 363–371 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02080495
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02080495