U-Pb data from cherts (Onverwacht Group) and strain data from conglomerates (Moodies Group) from the southern margin of the Archean Barberton Greenstone Belt, Eswatini

Heubeck, Christoph | Thomsen, Tonny B. | Heredia, Benjamin D. | Zeh, Armin | Balling, Philipp

2022

The southern margin of the Barberton Greenstone Belt in Eswatini limits one of the world’s oldest well-preserved sedimentary and volcanic sequences, 3.57 to 3.2 Ga old. In a segment along that margin, older mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks were thrust over the youngest strata (quartz-rich...

Mechanical test data of quartz sand, garnet sand, gypsum powder (plaster), kaolin and sand-plaster mixtures used as granular analogue materials in geoscience laboratory experiments

Poppe, Sam | Holohan, Eoghan P. | Rudolf, Michael | Rosenau, Matthias | Galland, Olivier | Delcamp, Audray | Van Gompel, Gert | Buls, Nico | Soens, Bastien | Pohlenz, Andre | Mourgues, Régis | Kervyn, Matthieu

2021

This dataset provides mechanical test data for quartz sand (“MAM1ST-300”, Sibelco, Mol, Belgium), gypsum powder (plaster; “Goldband”, Knauf), kaolin clay powder, garnet sand, and mixtures of quartz sand and gypsum powder, used at the Analogue Laboratory of the Department of Geography at the...

Nanoscale structures and properties of carbonate fault mirrors revealed by scanning electron and scanning transmission electron microscope images, electron energy loss and Raman spectra

Ohl, Markus | Plümper, Oliver | Chatzaras, Vasileios | Wallis, David | Vollmer, Christian | Drury, Martyn

2020

This data publication contains scanning electron microscope (SEM) and (scanning) transmission electron microscope ((S)TEM) images as well as electron energy loss spectra (EELS) and Raman spectra of the principal slip surface of carbonate fault mirrors. We analysed a total of eleven samples to...

Copper isotope fractionation during prehistoric smelting of copper sulfides: experimental and analytical data

Rose, Thomas | Klein, Sabine | Hanning, Erica K.

2020

The project from which the data derived aimed to establish the first systematic study of Cu isotope fractionation during the prehistoric smelting and refining process. For this reason, an experimental approach was used to smelt sulfide copper ore according to reconstructed prehistoric...

Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous matter on metasediments from the central Tauern Window (Eastern Alps)

Groß, Philip | Pleuger, Jan | Handy, Mark | Germer, Marisa | John, Timm

2020

Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous matter (RSCM) is commonly used to derive metamorphic peak- temperature estimates of metasedimentary rocks. This thermometry method exploits that the degree of graphitization of carbonateous matter (CM), which is measured via Raman spectroscopy, increases...

High-angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction data (HR-EBSD) from olivine and quartz

Wallis, David | Hansen, Lars | Britton, Ben | Wilkinson, Angus

2019

This dataset is supplemental to the paper Wallis et al. (2019) and contains data derived from distortion of crystal lattices measured using conventional electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and high-angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction (HR-EBSD). The datasets include lattice...

Whole-rock geochemistry of rock units from the Pfitscher Joch area, Western Tauern Window

Franz, Gerhard | Berryman, Eleanor | Kutzschbach, Martin | Meixner, Anette | Kasemann, Simone | Lucassen, Friedrich | Loges, Anselm | Schultze, Dina

2021

In the Western Tauern Window, Zillertal Alps (Austria/Italy), metasediments of a Mesozoic intra-montane basin ("Pfitsch-Mörchner basin"; Veselá and Lammerer, 2008) are exposed. The (me-ta)sediments were deposited on a Variscan basement, which comprises different types of meta-granitoids and...

GlobaLID – Global Lead Isotope Database

Westner, Katrin J. | Rose, Thomas | Klein, Sabine | Hsu, Yiu-Kang

2021

This dataset is a continuously growing collection of lead isotope reference data. Lead isotopes are an established method to reconstruct the raw material provenance of archaeological objects. They are typically applied to artefacts made of copper, lead, silver, and their alloys. However, also...

Decollement depth of Active thrust faults in Italy

Petricca, Patrizio

2019

Based on available geological and geophysical data, the depth of the basal thrust decollement for compressional areas of Italy is collected. The proposed dataset is useful to a large scientific and risk-management audience (e.g., input for numerical modelling of regional studies, or providing...

Mineral chemistry of chromite, orthopyroxene and plagioclase of chromitite layers in the Lower and Middle Group of the northwestern Bushveld Complex

Kaufmann, Felix E.D. | Hoffmann, Marie C. | Bachmann, Kai | Veksler, Ilya V. | Trumbull, Robert B. | Hecht, Lutz

2019

This data set contains mineral chemical analyses of chromite, orthopyroxene and plagioclase of five chromitite layers and their immediate host rocks from drill core ZK135 of the northwestern Bushveld Complex. The sampled interval of ZK135 covers the transition of the Lower and Middle Group...