Stable isotope data from Neoproterozoic carbonate rocks, Islay, Scotland

Alasdair Skelton

Oxygen and carbon isotope data from the Lossit Limestone and Bonahaven Dolomite Formations. These formations are below and above the Port Askaig Tillite Formation which was probably deposited during Sturtian glaciation.

Terrestrial Rocks Oxygen isotopes Carbon isotopes Neoproterozoic glaciations Snowball Earth

References

Skelton, A., Lewerentz, A., Kleine, B., Webster, D. and Pitcairn, I., 2015. Structural Channelling of Metamorphic Fluids on Islay, Scotland: Implications for Paleoclimatic Reconstruction. Journal of Petrology 56 (11), 2145–2172, DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egv067

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Data description

The dataset, stored in an Excel file, is described in detail by Skelton et al. (2015) and tabulated there in Table 1.