Publication Date:
2024-02-02
Description:
These data are trace element concentrations and U-Pb isotope ratios from phosphate nodules in Carboniferous-age carbonates, shales and phosphorites in Co. Clare, western Ireland. Sampling locations (both in degrees and as UTM coordinates) are also included. Mineralogically, the analysed material is apatite (species: carbonate-fluorapatite). These data are being used to support a paper which is currently under review. Data were collected by LA-Q-ICPMS in the National Centre for Isotope Geochemistry in University College Dublin, and at the iCRAG Lab @ Trinity College Dublin. Both labs are in Dublin, Ireland. Spots or portions of ablations intercepting inclusions of non-apatite phases have been excluded to ensure the accuracy of reported data. Appropriate reference materials (RMs) were used to reduce and quality-control data, including: Madagascar Fluorapatite; NIST612 glass; BHVO2G glass; Durango Fluorapatite; McClure Mountain Fluorapatite; and Bamble 2 Flour/Chlor-apatite. All secondary RMs reproduced their respective U-Pb isotopic ages or element concentrations within acceptable ranges. These processed data were reduced from raw data using Iolite 3 software. The analysis was chiefly funded under an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship Award awarded to Gary J O'Sullivan (GOIPD/2019/906).
Keywords:
-; Apatite; Barium-138; Barium-138, standard error; Calculated; Carboniferous; CDH3; Cerium-140; Cerium-140, standard error; Chlorine-35; Chlorine-35, standard error; Core; CORE; Dysprosium-163; Dysprosium-163, standard error; Erbium-166; Erbium-166, standard error; Europium-153; Europium-153, standard error; Event label; Gadolinium-157; Gadolinium-157, standard error; Geochemistry; Holmium-165; Holmium-165, standard error; Iolite 3 software; Ireland; Iron-56; Iron-56, standard error; LA-ICPMS; Lanthanum-139; Lanthanum-139, standard error; Latitude of event; Lead-206/Uranium-238, standard error; Lead-206/Uranium-238 ratio; Lead-207/Lead-206, standard error; Lead-207/Lead-206 ratio; Lead-207/Uranium-235, standard error; Lead-207/Uranium-235 ratio; Lithium-7; Lithium-7, standard error; Location; Longitude of event; Lutetium-175; Lutetium-175, standard error; Magnesium-24; Magnesium-24, standard error; Manganese-55; Manganese-55, standard error; Neodymium-146; Neodymium-146, standard error; OUTCROP; Outcrop sample; phosphate; Phosphorite; Praseodymium-141; Praseodymium-141, standard error; Rock type; Samarium-147; Samarium-147, standard error; Sample comment; Sample ID; Sample type; sedimentary geochemistry; St_Brendans_Well; Strontium-86; Strontium-86, standard error; Terbium-159; Terbium-159, standard error; Thorium-232; Thorium-232, standard error; Thulium-169; Thulium-169, standard error; U-Pb geochronology; Uranium-238; Uranium-238, standard error; Uranium-238/Lead-206, standard error; Uranium-238/Lead-206 ratio; UTM Easting, Universal Transverse Mercator; UTM Northing, Universal Transverse Mercator; UTM Zone, Universal Transverse Mercator; Ytterbium-172; Ytterbium-172, standard error; Yttrium-89; Yttrium-89, standard error
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 33050 data points
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