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Nitrogen geochemistry of igneous units from Loch Doon, Scotland (NERC Grant NE/P012167/1)

This dataset contains the nitrogen, oxygen, and lithophile element geochemistry of whole rock, and distribution coefficients, and stable isotope fractionation factors for biotite, orthoclase, and plagioclase mineral separates from the Loch Doon Zoned Pluton, Scotland. The samples were collected from the northern limb of the Loch Doon pluton and are petrologically classified as are granodiorites and granites which show geochemical evidence for being a cogenetic zoned pluton. The data were collected over a time period of 2019-2022. These data were collected to investigate elemental partitioning and stable isotope fractionation of nitrogen between biotite, plagioclase, and orthoclase relative to each other and to the system (whole rock) during magmatic differentiation. This project was curiosity-driven science, and the anticipated interest groups are assumed to be the wider research community via scholarship and analytical protocols. These data were collected by an international team of scientists as part of Dr Toby Boocock’s PhD project. The full list of contributors are shown below: Boocock, TJ., Stüeken, ES., König, R., Mikhail, S, The University of St Andrews, UK (performed analysis, acquired samples, interpreted data) Bybee, GM, The University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (performed analysis) Boyce, AJ, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, UK (performed analysis) Prytulak, J, Durham University, UK (interpreted data) Buisman, I, University of Cambridge, UK (performed analysis)

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Date (Creation)
2023-11-22
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608178
Originator
  University of St Andrews - Sami Mikhail
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bute Building, Queen's Terrace , St Andrews , KY16 9TS ,
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Nitrogen
  • Stable isotopes
  • Geochemistry
  • Magmatic differentiation
  • NGDC Deposited Data
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  • NGDC Deposited Data
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  • NERC_DDC
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2018-11-01
End date
2023-07-01

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  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
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non geographic dataset

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Date (Publication)
2011
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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No
Statement
Nitrogen contents and isotope values were measured on whole-rock and mineral-separate powders (biotite, Kspar, plagioclase, quartz) on a Thermo Fisher Scientific MAT253 Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer at the University of St Andrews. Oxygen isotopes were obtained at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) stable isotope laboratory. Samples were analysed for major and trace element composition by energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF) on a SPECTRO XEPOS HE spectrometer at the University of St Andrews In-situ major element data for biotite, Kspar, and plagioclase mineral phases were measured using the Cameca SX100 Electron Probe Micro Analyser (EPMA) in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. In-situ trace element data for biotite, Kspar and plagioclase were measured in the Advanced Mass Spectrometry Lab of the Earth Observatory at the University of the Witwatersrand. This work is published in a peer-reviewed journal: Boocock, TJ., Stüeken, ES., Bybee, GM., König, R., Boyce, AJ., Prytulak, J., Buisman, I., Mikhail, S. 2023. Equilibrium partitioning and isotopic fractionation of nitrogen between biotite, plagioclase, and K-feldspar during magmatic differentiation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 356, 116-128
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0f9b4460-d2ec-3935-e063-0937940a809d XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name
non geographic dataset
Date stamp
2025-06-10
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608178
 
 

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