Metal and organic carbon abundances of rock samples from a 3.47 billion year old stromatolite horizon in the Mount Ada Basalt, Western Australia

The dataset includes abundances of major, minor and trace elements, as well as abundances and isotopic ratios of organic carbon, of rock samples from a stromatolite-bearing horizon in the Mount Ada Basalt in the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia, 3.47 Ga. The section contains the oldest known large domal stromatolites. The data indicate hydrothermal nutrient sources and limited influx of felsic detrital material.

Date (Creation): 2025-10-02

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608542

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of St Andrews	Eva Elisabeth Stueeken	not available	Originator
University of St Andrews	Anthony R. Prave	not available	Originator
Curtin University	Liam O’Connor	not available	Originator
Curtin University	Jonas Kaempf	not available	Originator
Curtin University	Anthony Clarke	not available	Originator
Curtin University	Tim E. Johnson	not available	Originator
Curtin University	Christopher L. Kirkland	not available	Originator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Citable Data
Submarine hydrothermal vents
Basalt
NGDC Deposited Data
Stromatolites

dataCentre

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: WESTERN AUSTRALIA [id=582000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Begin date: 2025-06-02

End date: 2025-07-18

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

Name	Version
MS Excel

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item190169	Data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.5285/48e29b82-21a1-4a47-a578-00410a2918ed	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: Metal abundances were analysed by ICP-MS and ICP-AES after acid digestion, using method ME-MS61 of ALS in Dublin, Ireland. Organic carbon was analysed by flash combustion in an elemental analyzer (EA-Isolink) coupled to a gas-source mass spectrometer (MAT253) via a Conflo IV. Details are provided in Stüeken et al. (in review) "Large Domal Stromatolites in the Paleoarchean Ocean at 3.47 Ga".