Geochemical (major and trace elements, isotopes), petrologic, and geochronologic (U-Pb, Ar/Ar) data of the Paleozoic-early Mesozoic Paleo-Tethys suture in the Afghan Hindu-Kush‒Pamir region

Ratschbacher, Lothar | Institut für Keramik, Feuerfest und Verbundwerkstoffe

2026

The Herat-Panjshir-Badakhshan—the Paleo-Tethys—suture zone of Afghanistan marks the vestige of the subducted Paleozoic-early Mesozoic Paleo-Tethys oceanic lithosphere. We investigate the evolution of rocks north of this suture in the Hindu Kush and Pamir of Afghanistan. Our study identifies...

Laser ablation inductively coupled mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) of zircon U-Pb from a European terrane (Western Alps, Italy)

Balestro, Gianni | van Schijndel, Valby | Gattiglio, Marco | Borghi, Alessandro | Stefano, Ghignone

2025

Geochronological data allowed constraining the tectonostratigraphic evolution of a European terrane stacked in the Western Alps and consisting of a Palaeozoic basement overlain by a Mesozoic metasedimentary cover. Four samples belonging to the basement have been analyzed. They correspond to two...

High-resolution quantitative electron microprobe analysis of garnets from Holsnøy, Norway

Hess, Benjamin | Ague, Jay | Austrheim, Håkon

2025

The island of Holsnøy is located in southwestern Norway. It is composed of metastable granulite facies lower crust that was subducted at 430 Ma when fluid infiltrated the region and reacted with large portions of the area to form eclogite facies shear zones. The eclogite facies assemblages...

Electron diffraction patterns and HR-EBSD data from laboratory deformed olivine aggregates

Wiesman, Harison S. | Wallis, David

2026

This dataset is supplemental to the paper Wiesman et al. (submitted) and contains data on the density of dislocations and their stress fields in olivine rocks deformed via laboratory experiments. The data were used to investigate how the quality of diffraction patterns obtained via electron...

Geochemical and modal proportion analysis of phase assemblages on experimental samples investigating the fluid-absent melting of metasediments

Liu, Yongchao | Schmidt, Christian | Wunder, Bernd | Günter, Christina | Li, Jiankang | Chen, Zhenyu | Wang, Fangyue | van Schijndel, Valby | Appelt, Oona | Sieber, Melanie

2026

The melting relations, phase compositions, and trace element partitioning behavior during metasediment partial melting were investigated by high pressure and temperature experiments (300 and 900 MPa, 750–950 °C). The here published dataset includes all geochemical analysis of experimental...

Intercalibration of the intra-laboratory 40Ar/39Ar reference material Drachenfels sanidine

Di Vincenzo, Gianfranco

2026

The dataset contains full 40Ar/39Ar geochronological data completed by multi-collector noble-gas mass spectrometry using the laser total fusion technique on sanidine separated from the Drachenfels trachyte (Drachenfels, Bad Godesberg, Germany). The Drachenfels sanidine represents a useful...

3D XCT scans of 15mm gabbroic nodules from Gígöldur, Iceland

Subbaraman, Rahul | Buono, Gianmarco | Pappalardo, Lucia

2025

This dataset comprises 3D X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans of eight rock cores (15 mm diameter) prepared from two gabbroic nodules collected at Gígöldur, Central Iceland. The scans are provided in the Tagged Image File Format (*.tif). Data were acquired using a Carl Zeiss Xradia...

Laser ablation inductively coupled mass spectrometry trace element chemistry of sulfides from the Aouli Ag-Pb-Zn-(Cu) vein system (Upper Moulouya district, Morocco)

Zaid, Khadra | Bouabdellah, Mohammed | Frenzel, Max | van Schijndel, Valby | Levresse, Gilles | Idbaroud, Mohamed | Yans, Johan

2025

This data report presents the in-situ LA-ICP-MS trace element composition of sphalerite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite from the Aouli Ag-Pb-Zn-(Cu) vein system in the Upper Moulouya district, Morocco. The dataset contributes to a study focused on characterizing the element concentrations in sulfides...

Analytical, modelled, and imaging data of eclogitic clinopyroxene inclusions hosted in diamonds from the Cullinan Mine (South Africa) and the Rassolnaya Placer (Urals Mountains, Russia)

Wang, Wenyu | Korolev, Nester M. | Kiseeva, Ekaterina S. | Davies, Rondi M. | Weiss, Yaakov | Kopylova, Maya | Towbin, W. Henry | Huang, Fang | Moore, Andy E. | Vasilev, Evgeniy A.

2025

This dataset comprises analytical, modelled, and imaging data of eclogitic clinopyroxene inclusions hosted in diamonds from the Cullinan Mine (South Africa) and the Rassolnaya Placer (Urals Mountains, Russia). Six inclusions containing varying proportions of spongy clinopyroxene (~10–100%) were...

Mineral chemical and sulfur isotope data for precious metal mineralized rocks of the Rum layered intrusion, NW Scotland

O'Driscoll, Brian | Parker, Amy | Day, James

2025

Samples of sulfide-hosted platinum-group element (PGE) mineralization from the Rum layered intrusion (NW Scotland) were studied to elucidate the crystallization history of base-metal sulfide in magmatic ore deposits. A corollary aim was to examine the controls on platinum-group mineral...