GEOROC Sample Information
Location
Latitude 14.9178 | Longitude 39.9422
EAST AFRICAN RIFT / ETHIOPIAN RIFT / AFAR DEPRESSION / ALID
NE 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: ED96-7
Sample Information
BASALT, OLIVINE / SPARSELY PORPHYRIC TEXTURE
OUTCROP
Sample Age Information
PLEISTOCENE
Chemistry (and, if given, analytical ages)
Analyzed: WHOLE ROCK
| PB206_PB204 | 19.345 |
| PB207_PB204 | 15.677 |
| PB208_PB204 | 39.067 |
| SR87_SR86 | 0.70335 |
| AL2O3 | 14.99 WT% |
| CAO | 12.06 WT% |
| FE2O3 | 1.99 WT% |
| FEO | 7.15 WT% |
| FEOT | 8.94 WT% |
| K2O | 0.41 WT% |
| LOI | 0.62 WT% |
| MGO | 9.95 WT% |
| MNO | 0.16 WT% |
| NA2O | 2.1 WT% |
| P2O5 | 0.17 WT% |
| SIO2 | 50.16 WT% |
| TIO2 | 0.85 WT% |
| CE | 18.82 PPM |
| DY | 2.67 PPM |
| ER | 1.69 PPM |
| EU | 0.74 PPM |
| GD | 2.43 PPM |
| LA | 9.27 PPM |
| LU | 0.33 PPM |
| ND | 9.24 PPM |
| SM | 2.09 PPM |
| YB | 1.73 PPM |
| BA | 185 PPM |
| CO | 49 PPM |
| CS | 0.007 PPM |
| HF | 1.2 PPM |
| LI | 3 PPM |
| NB | 17 PPM |
| NI | 191 PPM |
| PB | 0.63 PPM |
| RB | 3 PPM |
| SC | 17 PPM |
| SR | 191 PPM |
| TA | 1.1 PPM |
| TH | 1.08 PPM |
| U | 0.33 PPM |
| V | 279 PPM |
| Y | 16 PPM |
| ZR | 47 PPM |