How to use this collection guide

The collections guide presents itself in a window with five frames: A title frame (upper left window), a location frame (upper right small window), a contents frame (middle left), the information frame (the large window to the right), and a navigation frame (lower left, yellow window, see figure).

A session starts with a survey on the contents frame. Links from the contents frame direct the user to the large information frame, which provides the details about a particular collection. Information about the physical location of a collection can be read from the location frame after clicking on the link Standort. Please note, that the physical location of a collection may be different in the future; the information given here refers to the datum of the latest modification indicated in the title frame). Literature references to a particular collection appear in the title frame after clicking on the references link (in the present version, references open in a new window). The red entry "Standort:" behind the literature references indicate the location, where a copy of the reference can be found in the museum. With the literature references often a back-link to the collection is given, which opens in the information frame (again, in the present version this link creates a new window).

The navigation frame is a tool to change from one contents frame to another. At present, there exist three possibilities to search the collections:

• 1.) Clicking on Contens leads to the introduction, the primary type collections and collections from the DSDP and ODP, and a listing of more important collections arranged by geographical areas (continents, countries).

• 2.) Clicking on Primary type & ref collns leads to an alphabetically and chronologically listed collection of links to the primary type collections and reference collections to published studies held in the NMB.

• 3.) Clicking on Archives leads to maps and documents in the geological archives.

• 4.) Clicking on Rawmat. collns by regions leads to Raw material collections arranged by regions (preliminary). Raw materials collections are bright blue in the background, while all other frames to collections and archives have a white back ground.

• 5.) Clicking on Show Trinidad formations leads to a collection of links about the Jurassic to Quaternary formations of Trinidad, which lead to a particular formation in the stratigraphic collection of Hans G. Kugler and coworkers held in the museum.

• Clicking on Title at the end of the navigation frame resets to the introduction in the title frame.

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