Whole rock geochemistry, electron microprobe and laser ablation ICP-MS geochemistry of the Georgina Basin phosphorites

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This dataset comprises whole rock geochemistry of the Georgina Basin (Queensland, northern Australia) phosphorites and their locations, along with the underlying basement rocks (Sybella Granites, Proterozoic Schists and McNamarra Group metasediments of the Lawn Hill Platform). Phosphorite samples were collected in 2020 by the Geological Survey of Queensland from drillholes provided by individual companies that hold the tenements over the analysed prospects (Ardmore, Phosphate Hill, Duchess, Lily Creek, Sherrin Creek, DTREE, Barr Creek, Paradise North and Paradise South). Basement rock sample were collected during a field campaign in June-July 2021. Whole rock geochemistry was obtained through external laboratory (ALS Global) using lithium borate fusion method, with full dataset published previously by authors (Valetich et al., 2022 - Chemical Geology, v.588, 120654). Laser ablation and microprobe geochemistry of the individual phosphate (carbonate fluorapatite) clasts (phosclasts and microcrystalline carbonate fluorapatite) was carried out at Adelaide Microscopy (The University of Adelaide) using the procedures detailed in the publication linked to this dataset in the Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G Cubed) journal.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.965347
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120654
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.965347
Provenance
Creator Zivak, Diana ORCID logo; Spandler, Carl ORCID logo; Valetich, Matthew
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 4 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (138.711W, -21.901S, 139.985E, -19.559N)