Uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating of the Wensleydale Granite, Yorkshire Dales, UK
| Dataset title | Uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating of the Wensleydale Granite, Yorkshire Dales, UK |
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| Dataset creators | Vanessa Pashley, British Geological Survey Chris Thomas, British Geological Survey Simon Tapster, British Geological Survey |
| Dataset theme | Geoscientific Information |
| Dataset abstract |
We undertook U-Pb analysis - both high precision ID-TIMS and high spatial resolution LA-MC-ICP-MS – to determine the age of the Wensleydale Granite. This was done in order to resolve the ambiguity surrounding an earlier (1974) Rb/Sr age determination. |
| Dataset content dates | Analytical data were acquired between 2016 – 2017 at the Geochronology and Tracers facility, British Geological Survey |
| Dataset spatial coverage |
North Pennines, UK |
| Dataset supply format | MS Word, MS Excel, PDF |
| Dataset language | English-United Kingdom |
| Dataset discovery metadata record | Discovery Link to the dataset's BGS Discovery Metadata record |
| Dataset publisher | NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre |
| Dataset publication date | 25/09/2021 |
| Dataset digital object identifier(DOI) | 10.5285/cf65a5b9-5d0e-4f23-90af-e98089b983c0 |
| Dataset citation text | Pashley, V., Thomas, C., Tapster, S. (2021). Uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating of the Wensleydale Granite, Yorkshire Dales, UK. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/cf65a5b9-5d0e-4f23-90af-e98089b983c0 |
| Constraints and terms of use | This data set is available under Open Government Licence, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying any reproduced materials: "Contains data supplied by permission of the Natural Environment Research Council [YEAR]". |
| Access the dataset | https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item168591 |