Dataset
Data Publication
Mineral-chemical analyses of a 1500 meter drill-core profile through the upper Main Zone of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa
Veksler, Ilya | Trumbull, Robert B. | Van Schijndel, Valby | Appelt, Oona | Meima, Jeannet | Nikonow, Wilhelm | Rammlmair, Dieter | Roelofse, Frederick | Magson, Justine
GFZ Data Services
(2026)
Descriptions
The Bushveld Drilling Project (BVDP) of the International Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) has obtained drill cores through almost the entire 8000 meter-thickness of the Rustenburg Layered Series of the Bushveld Igneous Complex in the South Africa, the largest layered mafic intrusion on Earth. These cores make it possible to assess the vertical variations in the intrusion in detail. The purpose of studies reported here was to determine the modal proportions of minerals and their chemical composition in the Main Zone of the Bushveld Complex, which is the thickest and most homogenous of the five zones (Upper, Main, Critical, Lower, Marginal). These data give insights into the nature of the magma or magmas that filled the magma chamber, how it/they evolved with time, under what pressure-temperature conditions the magma(s) crystallized and to what extent the rocks were modified after crystallization.
Micro-X-ray fluorescence (micro-XRF), laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), electron microprobe analyses, laser-ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS)
Keywords
MSL enriched keywords
equipment
mass spectrometer
laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry
x-ray spectrometer
x-ray fluorescence spectrometer
analysis
microchemical analysis
trace elements
whole rock analysis
trace elements
igneous rock - intrusive
magma
electron probe micro-analyzer
Apparatus
microchemical analysis
electron probe micro analyser
MSL vocabulary keywords corresponding to originally assigned keywords
laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry
x-ray fluorescence spectrometer
trace elements
trace elements
Originally assigned keywords
International Continental Scientific Drilling Program
LA-ICP-MS
XRF
EARTH SCIENCE
CHEMICAL CONCENTRATIONS
ISOTOPES
TRACE ELEMENTS
IGNEOUS ROCK FORMATION
Metadata
MSL enriched sub domains
geochemistry
microscopy and tomography
Resource Type
Source
Source publisher
| GFZ Data Services |
Creators
| Veksler, Ilya |
| Personal |
| https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9692-363X |
| GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Trumbull, Robert B. |
| Personal |
| https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1999-4653 |
| GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Van Schijndel, Valby |
| Personal |
| https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2823-8200 |
| GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Appelt, Oona |
| Personal |
| GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Meima, Jeannet |
| Personal |
| https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4378-2500 |
| Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hanover, Germany |
| Nikonow, Wilhelm |
| Personal |
| https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7245-4763 |
| Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hanover, Germany |
| Rammlmair, Dieter |
| Personal |
| https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7958-9337 |
| Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany |
| Roelofse, Frederick |
| Personal |
| https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3365-6992 |
| University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa |
| Magson, Justine |
| Personal |
| https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2678-0503 |
| University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa |
Contributors
| Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hanover, Germany |
| Personal |
| Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hanover, Germany |
| EleMap LA-ICP-MS laboratory of GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Personal |
| GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Spectrum (Central Analytical Facility), University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Personal |
| University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Trumbull, Robert B. |
| Personal |
| https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1999-4653 |
| GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
Citation
Veksler, I., Trumbull, R. B., Van Schijndel, V., Appelt, O., Meima, J., Nikonow, W., Rammlmair, D., Roelofse, F., & Magson, J. (2026). Mineral-chemical analyses of a 1500 meter drill-core profile through the upper Main Zone of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa [Dataset]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.AJPH.2026.001
References
Dates
| Created | 2026-06-12 |
Language
- no language entry found -
Funding References
| Funder Name | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| Funder Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 |
| Award Number | TR256/7-1, 7-2 |
| Award Title | SPP 1006 |
Rights
| Name | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| URI | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| Identifier | cc-by-4.0 |
| Identifier Scheme | SPDX |
| Scheme URI | https://spdx.org/licenses/ |
Locations
Geo location(s)
Borehole: ICDP 5067-2-B