Journal article
Major element data, 40Ar/39Ar step-heating and step-crushing data for anorthoclase megacrysts from the Newer Volcanic Province, south-eastern Australia
EL Matchan, D Phillips, E Traine, D Zhu
Data in Brief | ELSEVIER | Published : 2018
Abstract
We provide the dataset associated with the research article “40Ar/39Ar ages of alkali feldspar xenocrysts constrain the timing of intraplate basaltic volcanism” Matchan et al. [1]. This dataset contains major element data for 15 large anorthoclase xenocrysts (‘megacrysts’) collected from six Pleistocene eruption centres (Mount Leura, Mount Shadwell, Mount Noorat, Mount Franklin, Lake Keilambete and The Anakies (East Cone)) in the basaltic Newer Volcanic Province of south-eastern Australia. It also contains multi-collector (Argus VI) 40Ar/39Ar step-heating for 13 of these anorthoclase megacrysts. 40Ar/39Ar vacuo step-crushing experiment data is also provided for three of these megacrysts.
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by ARC grant DP130100517. William (Bill) Birch and Dermot Henry from the Melbourne Museum are thanked for providing access to the Museum Victoria mineral collection and supplying the majority of the feldspar megacrysts used in this study. Stan Szczepanski is thanked for technical assistance in the Noble Gas Geochronology Laboratory, and Graham Hutchinson is thanked for assistance with electron microprobe analyses (University of Melbourne).