SiO2 and Rb-Sr ratios vs crustal thickness in central and south western America (NERC grant NE/K008862/1)

A GEOROC (http://georoc.mpch-mainz.gwdg.de/georoc/) compilation of 8,531 analyses of SiO2, Rb and Sr concentrations, in crustal rocks sampled in central and southwestern America, at sites of various crustal thickness. These data were used in Dhuime et al. (2015, Nature Geoscience 8, 552-555) to establish a positive correlation between Rb/Sr (or SiO2) and crustal thickness in sites of generation of new continental crust. GEOROC - Geochemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents

Date (Creation): 2017-07-31

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607198

Point of contact

University of Bristol - Dr Bruno Dhuime ( School of Earth Sciences )

Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road , Bristol , BS8 1RJ ,

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Crustal evolution
Rubidium
Crustal thickness
Strontium
Continental crust

dataCentre

NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

CENTRAL AMERICA [id=800000]

Date (Creation): 1979

Geographic identifier

SOUTH AMERICA [id=840000]

Date (Creation): 1979

Begin date: 2014-06-09

End date: 2014-12-05

Reference System Information

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Distribution format

Microsoft Excel ( witheld )

OnLine resource: Data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

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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: The crustal thickness is calculated from the latitude and longitude coordinates of the samples and the Crust 1.0 model (http://igppweb.ucsd.edu/~gabi/crust1.html), as summarised in Dhuime et al. 2015 (Nature Geoscience 8, 552-555).