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Major and trace element whole rock analyses of igneous rock samples from the Virgin Islands

Major and trace element whole rock analyses of igneous rock samples from the Virgin Islands. Samples were collected from Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Norman Island, Beef Island and Peter Island. Major and trace element abundances were analysed using a JY Horiba Ultima 2 inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) and a Thermo X7 series inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) at Chemostrat, North Wales using lithium tetraborate fusion.

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Date (Creation)
2025-08-25
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608503
Originator
  University of Edinburgh - Dr Alan Hastie
Originator
  University of Edinburgh - Alastair Hodgetts
Originator
  University of Edinburgh - Lindsay Young
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable notApplicable
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Igneous rocks
  • Spectrometers
dataCentre
  • Citable Data
  • NGDC Deposited Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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The dataset has been formally approved by BGS for access by external clients under a BGS Digital Data Licence, issued via BGS's IPR Section. The dataset must not be provided to, or be accessible by, an external client until the IPR Section confirms that signed licence documentation is in place. Refer to the IPR Section (DigitalLE@bgs.ac.) if further advice is required.. Constraint applies until 2027-09-01
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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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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2025-03-01
End date
2025-06-01

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Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
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Data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
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Hastie, A., Hodgetts, A., Young, L. (2025). Major and trace element whole rock analyses of igneous rock samples from the Virgin Islands [Data set]. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/C6AC1F1B-86DA-40C1-B0AB-7C6FB0F4FA58

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nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Other
non geographic dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Pass
No
Statement
Approximately 100 ml of the freshest part of the sample was then crushed and powdered using a clean jaw crusher and an agate ball mill. An agate mill was used rather than a tungsten-carbide mill to minimise Nb and Ta contamination. Approximately 2g of each powdered sample were weighed into clean ceramic crucibles. The powders were ignited at 900oC for two hours to drive off any volatiles. Afterwards each vial was allowed to cool in a dessicator and re-weighed to obtain an accurate loss on lignition (LOI)
File identifier
3dd2260f-c8b0-fd89-e063-3050940aaebf XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name
non geographic dataset
Date stamp
2026-03-19
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/13608503
 
 

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