40a23ed9-9352-e00e-e063-3050940ab141 English dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-03-09 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608542 WGS 84 (EPSG::4326) Metal and organic carbon abundances of rock samples from a 3.47 billion year old stromatolite horizon in the Mount Ada Basalt, Western Australia 2025-10-02 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608542 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. Eva Elisabeth Stueeken University of St Andrews not available originator Anthony R. Prave University of St Andrews not available originator Liam O’Connor Curtin University Perth WA 6102 Australia not available originator Jonas Kaempf Curtin University Perth WA 6102 Australia not available originator Anthony Clarke Curtin University Perth WA 6102 Australia not available originator Tim E. Johnson Curtin University Perth WA 6102 Australia not available originator Christopher L. 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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]" vector English geoscientificInformation British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation WESTERN AUSTRALIA [id=582000] 119.3300 119.4000 -21.1100 -21.0400 2025-06-02 2025-07-18 Microsoft Excel witheld Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item190169 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Data download https://doi.org/10.5285/48e29b82-21a1-4a47-a578-00410a2918ed WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Stüeken, E. E., Prave, A. R., O’Connor, L., Kaempf, J., Clarke, A., Johnson, T. E., Kirkland, C. L. (2025). Metal and organic carbon abundances of rock samples from a 3.47 billion year old stromatolite horizon in the Mount Ada Basalt, Western Australia. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/48e29b82-21a1-4a47-a578-00410a2918ed information dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false 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 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false 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".