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Drone images and geochemical compositions of reference materials and silicified lavas and cherts from the Paleoarchean Barberton Greenstone Belt

     This data set is related to the study of Archean seafloor-derived silicified rocks that were sampled in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, in South Africa. It reports (1) drone images of geological sites where the silicified rock samples were collected, (2) chlorite temperature maps, (3) Raman spectra of carbonaceous materials, (4) Sm-Nd and La-Ce isochrone images, and (5) geochemical (major element, trace element and isotopic) analyses of natural samples and reference materials. These data were collected as part of Steve Kitoga's PhD research and related to the following published paper: Kitoga, S., Moyen, J.-F., Boyet, M., Marin-Carbonne, J., Olivier, N., Garçon, M., & Stevens, G. History and geochemical signatures of hydrothermally silicified lavas and sediments from the Palaeoarchean (3.5-3.2 Ga) Barberton Greenstone Belt. Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, 2(1), 773. https://doi.org/10.33063/agc.v2i1.773. The dataset is provided along with a "README" file that provides relevant details on the content of each file contained in the dataset and a summary of methods that were used to acquire the data. A more detailed description of the methods that were used to acquire the data is accessible in Kitoga et al. (2026) (https://doi.org/10.33063/agc.v2i1.773).

How to citeKitoga, L. S., Moyen, J.-F., Boyet, M., Marin-Carbonne, J., OLIVIER, N., Garçon, M., & Stevens, G. (2025). Drone images and geochemical compositions of reference materials and silicified lavas and cherts from the Paleoarchean Barberton Greenstone Belt [Data set]. OPGC, LMV. https://doi.org/10.25519/QXR1-9Y88

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   DataKitoga_dataset_2025.zip
   Metadata DataCite - XML - JSON
   Repositoryhttps://catalog.opgc.uca.fr/geonetwork3/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/2a790d0c-2c22-4afa-b247-eb14bf54c778
   Links
   DOIhttps://doi.org/10.33063/agc.v2i1.773 Article DOI
https://doi.org/10.25519/QXR1-9Y88 Dataset DOI

About this resource
   KeywordsSilicified lavas, Cherts, Geochemistry
   Ressource Type
Dataset
   LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
   Funding references
CNRS, UCA, ERC Horizon Europe
   CreatorsLungele Steve Kitoga, Jean-Francois Moyen, Maud Boyet, Johanna Marin-Carbonne, Nicolas Olivier, Marion Garçon, Gary Stevens
   Creation date
November 2021
   PublisherOPGC, LMV
   Publication year
2025

Technical information
   Spatial extent
N: -25°45'; S: -26°0' , E: 31°0', W: 30°45'
   FormatsXlsx, JPEG, PNG
   Software
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