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false4DOIDB.GFZ 10.5880/GFZ.3.1.2023.005 Stammeier, Jessica Jessica Stammeier 0000-0002-3603-3272 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Wiedenbeck, Michael Michael Wiedenbeck GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Glodny, Johannes Johannes Glodny 0000-0002-7812-5933 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Sigmarsson, Olgeir Olgeir Sigmarsson University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Potts, Philip J. Philip J. Potts 0000-0002-8790-0794 Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Webb, Peter Peter Webb 0000-0003-2467-5953 Open University, Milton Keynes, UK GFZ Data Services 2023 Iceland compound material > igneous material > igneous rock compound material > igneous material > igneous rock > fine grained igneous rock > basalt In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Spectrometers/Radiometers > ICP-MS In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Spectrometers/Radiometers > XRF Stammeier, Jessica Jessica Stammeier 0000-0002-3603-3272 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Wiedenbeck, Michael Michael Wiedenbeck GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Wiedenbeck, Michael Michael Wiedenbeck GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Glodny, Johannes Johannes Glodny 0000-0002-7812-5933 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Glodny, Johannes Johannes Glodny 0000-0002-7812-5933 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Rothe, Heike Heike Rothe Stammeier, Jessica GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany 2022-12-07 Dataset 10.1111/J.1751-908X.1984.TB00403.X CC BY 4.0 The USGS has suspended the distribution of the widely used whole rock reference materials BHVO, BCR and BIR. The goal of this work is to identify a material as similar as possible to the original BIR Islandic basalt. This material can then undergo an ISO-compliant certification of the whole rock powder major and trace element contents.
The sampling quarry east of Reykjavik has multiple basalt flows and it is not known which one was originally sampled in 1980 for production of above mentioned reference materials. In this study, three samples were tested to see which is most similar to what was published by Flanigan (1984). Here, the results of this exploratory sample collection are presented, but note that these data are not part of the certification process or represent certified results.
Three basalt samples each of around 500 grams were collected at an abandoned quarry circa 12 km east of Reykjavik, Iceland. The samples were ground to <63 µm using an agate mortar.
Major and minor element concentrations were determined on glass beads by xrf.
Some minor and trace elements were determined on whole rock digests using the standard 4 acid digestion.
Location of the sampling quarry