Density and susceptibility catalogue of 320 rock samples from northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica ...

• Main Authors: Lowe, Maximilian, Jordan, Tom, Ebbing, Joerg, Koglin, Nikola, Ruppel, Antonia, Moorkamp, Max, Green, Christopher, Laufer, Andreas, Liebsch, Jonas, Ginga, Mikhail, Larter, Robert
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre 2024
• Subjects: "EARTH SCIENCE","SOLID EARTH","ROCKS/MINERALS/CRYSTALS"; East Antarctica; density; northern Victoria Land; petrology; susceptibility; Antarc*; Antarctica; Victoria Land
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/9ac70954-80aa-45af-b70f-e4e45efa8293; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01823

We present a petrophysical catalogue of new density and susceptibility measurements conducted on 320 rock samples from northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica. The rock samples are stored by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Berlin-Spandau and Hanover, Germany. Funding for this research was provided by NERC through a SENSE CDT studentship (NE/T00939X/1) ... : Susceptibility measurements were conducted by using a handheld KAPPAMETER KM-7 (Pocket Magnetic Susceptibility Meter) hand meter. For each rock sample eight repeat measurements have been performed on different flat and if possible fresh surfaces. Density was measured by using a scale and a bucket of water, where we measured the try rock weight and the volume was established by measuring the weight of the displaced water. The samples were collected during the GANOVEX missions between 1979-2021. The columns of the CSV file are described as follows: * sample_name: Collection identifier. * latitude: latitude in decimal minutes WGS 84 * longitude: longitude in decimal minutes WGS 84 * lat_decimal: latitude in decimal degrees WGS84 * lon_decimal: longitude in decimal degrees WGS84 * locality: Describes the sample location * rocktyp: Describes the rock type of the sample as classified by the sample collector * stratigraphy: Describes stratigraphic formation of the sample as classified by the sample collector * ...