89795ed5-76d0-394e-e054-002128a47908 English dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-15 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607463 Nama Group geochemistry (NERC grant NE/I00596X/1) 2019-05-02 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607463 Rare earth element, major and minor element, and iron speciation data for nine independent sections in the Nama Group, described in detail in Wood et al., 2015, Precambrian Research, and Tostevin et al., 2016, Nature Communications. Additional data for Zebra River section include sulfur isotopes from carbonate associated sulfate (published in Tostevin et al, 2017, Precambrian Research); Uranium isotope data for carbonates (published in Tostevin et al., 2019, EPSL); Calcium isotope data for carbonates (unpublished). Professor Graham Shields-Zhou University College London Department of Earth Sciences Gower Street London WC1E 6BT not available principalInvestigator Rosalie Tostevin University College London Department of Earth Sciences Gower Street London WC1E 6BT not available pointOfContact notApplicable https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/89795ed5-76d0-394e-e054-002128a47908.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Rare earth elements Precambrian Sulphur isotopes Limestone Uranium isotopes Calcium isotopes Carbonates Geochemistry Carbon isotopes BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision NGDC Deposited Data dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions licenceOGL Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" otherRestrictions The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused. There are no restrictions on the use that may be made of the dataset, although an appropriate copyright acknowledgement must be made when any part of the dataset is reproduced. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely available without any use constraints - inclusion of any third party data / information will affect the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made. English geoscientificInformation ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision NA ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision NAM British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation NAMIBIA [id=665000] 16.1300 16.6900 -27.4700 -23.8700 2011-09-09 2018-10-01 Microsoft Excel witheld https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item127818 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Data download 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 Methodology used to collect REE data is described in detail in Tostevin et al., 2016, Chemical Geology. In brief, a sequential leaching procedure was used on the samples, with the first 20% discarded and the next 40% retained. Methodology used to collect iron speciation data from carbonate rocks is detailed in Clarkson et al., 2015, Chemical Geology.