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Geochemical and petrographic analysis of rock samples collected from Palmer Land and Graham Land, Antarctica in 2001/2002

The chemistry of mafic volcanic rocks and minor intrusions erupted on continents can be used to define the composition and history of subcontinental asthenospheric and lithospheric mantle domains. We have produced new and collated published data for Antarctica in order to identify mantle domains beneath the continent.

Suitable material archived at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, the result of previous geological research, was sampled and prepared for petrographic and geochemical analysis in the intervening period between field collection and sample arrival in the United Kingdom.

Field information, petrography and raw geochemical data obtained from XRF (X-ray fluorescence), ICPMS (Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer), TIMS (Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer), Ar/Ar analysis and Electron Microprobe analysis of rock samples collected from Palmer Land and Graham Land was used to define a geochemical profile of crust/mantle architecture beneath the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Date (Creation)
2009-04-17
Date (Revision)
2009-04-17
Date (Publication)
2009-04-17
Date (released)
2009-04-17
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1
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GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00401
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https://data.bas.ac.uk/
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Status
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Author
  British Antarctic Survey - Leat, Philip ( Researcher )
Author
  British Antarctic Survey - Vaughan, Alan ( Researcher )
Author
  Dean, Alison ( Researcher )
Point of contact
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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completed Completed
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Geomorphology
Theme
  • Geology
  • asthenospheric mantle
  • geochemistry
  • lithospheric mantle
  • petrography
  • volcanic rocks
Place
  • northeast Palmer Land; Trinity Peninsula, northern Graham Land Antarctica
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Land cover
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Other constraints
This dataset is supplied under the Open Government Licence v3.0: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
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Requests for data can be made via the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) at BAS.
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Begin date
2001-11-01
End date
2002-02-28
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It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
Date (Publication)
2008-11-12
Publisher
  European Petroleum Survey Group
https://www.epsg-registry.org/
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
Version
6.18.3

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  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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Date stamp
2009-04-17
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Metadata standard version
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Point of contact
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
 
 

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Keywords

Geology asthenospheric mantle geochemistry lithospheric mantle petrography volcanic rocks
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Land cover
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Geomorphology

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