GEOROC Sample Information
Location
Latitude 14.8917 | Longitude 39.9006
EAST AFRICAN RIFT / ETHIOPIAN RIFT / AFAR DEPRESSION / ALID
NORTHERN FLANK OF ALID, DANAKIL DEPRESSION
RIFT VOLCANICS
Reference
LANPHERE M. A.,DUFFIELD W. A.,CLYNNE M. A.,LOWENSTERN J. B.,BULLEN T. D.,FOURNIER R. O.,JANIK C. J.,SMITH J. G.,TESFAI T.,WOLDEGIORGIS L,KAHSAI G.,WELDEMARIAM K.
GEOTHERMAL POTENTIAL OF THE ALID VOLCANIC CENTER, DANAKIL DEPRESSION, ERITREA
U. S. GEOL. SURV. OPEN FILE REPT. 97-291 [1997] 1-62
Sample Name: ED96-1
Sample Information
BASALT / APHYRIC DYKTITAXITIC TEXTURE
OUTCROP
Sample Age Information
PLEISTOCENE
Chemistry (and, if given, analytical ages)
Analyzed: WHOLE ROCK
| PB206_PB204 | 19.608 |
| PB207_PB204 | 15.659 |
| PB208_PB204 | 39.412 |
| SR87_SR86 | 0.70323 |
| AL2O3 | 16.39 WT% |
| CAO | 10.58 WT% |
| FE2O3 | 2.1 WT% |
| FEO | 7.56 WT% |
| FEOT | 9.45 WT% |
| K2O | 0.97 WT% |
| LOI | -0.24 WT% |
| MGO | 6.67 WT% |
| MNO | 0.18 WT% |
| NA2O | 2.9 WT% |
| P2O5 | 0.29 WT% |
| SIO2 | 51.1 WT% |
| TIO2 | 1.26 WT% |
| CE | 40.8 PPM |
| DY | 3.23 PPM |
| ER | 1.9 PPM |
| EU | 1.21 PPM |
| GD | 3.54 PPM |
| LA | 20.6 PPM |
| LU | 0.31 PPM |
| ND | 18.34 PPM |
| SM | 3.64 PPM |
| YB | 1.85 PPM |
| BA | 356 PPM |
| CO | 44 PPM |
| CS | 0.175 PPM |
| HF | 1.95 PPM |
| LI | 5 PPM |
| NB | 31 PPM |
| NI | 50 PPM |
| PB | 2 PPM |
| RB | 20 PPM |
| SC | 35 PPM |
| SR | 455 PPM |
| TA | 1.96 PPM |
| TH | 2.4 PPM |
| U | 0.71 PPM |
| V | 349 PPM |
| Y | 19 PPM |
| ZR | 82 PPM |