Isua Greenstone Belt, sulfur isotope data (NERC Grant NE/V010824/1)
Triple-sulfur isotope data from schists and carbonates in the Eoarchean Isua Greenstone Belt (3.7 Ga), using a new leaching technique and a multi-collector ICP-MS. The results reveal distinct pattern between the two lithologies and demonstrate an atmospheric contribution of sulfur in both cases. This may support the notion that these rocks represent metamorphosed marine sediments. However, hydrothermal alteration needs to be assessed in more detail to verify the antiquity of these signatures.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2023-12-18
Originator
University of St Andrews
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Andrea Burke
Bute Building, Queen's Terrace
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St Andrews
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KY16 9TS
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- Archaean
- NGDC Deposited Data
- Sulphur isotopes
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- NERC_DDC
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- restricted
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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
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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GREENLAND [id=902000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
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- Begin date
- 2023-02-01
- End date
- 2023-12-15
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
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- dataset Dataset
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- 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
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- No
- Statement
- Sulfur was leached from rock powders with aqua regia; the solutions were dried and redissolved in dilute nitric acid and then purified for sulfate with a Prepfast. The purified solutions enriched in sulfate were analysed by inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry at the University of St Andrews
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- 0ea88008-9e02-59a9-e063-0937940acbf5 XML
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- EnglishEnglish
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- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth
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NOTTINGHAM
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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
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NG12 5GG
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United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608169
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