The following list
includes all compilations of chemical analyses of New
Zealand rocks known to us that are readily available to the
scientific community apart from those given in scientific
papers and theses. The list has been restricted to analyses
after about 1975, when modern, high-quality instrumental
data started to become available. No updates have been made
since 2000 and all analyses have been incorporated in the
PETLAB
database.
Data from the School of
Earth Sciences, Victoria University Roser, B.P., Coombs, D.S.,
Korsch, R.J., Campbell, J.D., Mortimer, N., Grapes, R. 2000:
Whole rock analyses of sandstones, siltsontes and tuffs from
the Murihiku Terrane, New Zealand. School of Earth
Sciences Research Report 7, Victoria University of
Wellington. Data from the Institute
of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Graham, I.J. 1994:
Petrological descriptions of TVZ mafic-intermediate volcanic
rocks: compilation of published and unpublished
petrographic, geochemical and isotopic data. Other
data Muir, R.J.; Weaver, S.D.;
Bradshaw, J.D.; Eby, G.N; Evans, J.A. 1995: The Cretaceous
Separation Point Batholith, New Zealand: granitoid magmas
formed by melting of mafic lithosphere. Journal of the
Geological Society [London, UK] 152:
689-701.
Morris, P. 1979: Major and trace element geochemistry of
volcanic rocks from the Chatham Islands. Publication of
the Geology Department. no 11 (Analytical Facility
Contribution no. 1), Victoria University of Wellington.
[150 analyses of volcanic rocks from the Chatham
Islands]
Morris, P. 1979: Electron microprobe analyses of
minerals from volcanic rocks from the Chatham Islands.
Publication of the Geology Department no. 12 (Analytical
Facility Contribution no. 2), Victoria University of
Wellington.
Cole, J.W. 1979: Chemical analyses of lavas and ignimbrites
of the Taupo Volcanic Zone. Publication of the Geology
Department no. 13 (Analytical Facility Contribution no. 3),
Victoria University of Wellington.
[256 analyses of major and trace elements used in a
review paper by J.W. Cole (N.Z. Journal of Geology &
Geophysics 22, 1979)]
Grapes, R and Palmer, K., 1982: X-ray fluorescence major and
trace element analyses of metabasites, Southern Alps, New
Zealand. Publication of the Geology Department no. 24
(Analytical Facility Contribution no. 8), Victoria
University of Wellington.
[46 analyses of metabasites (greenschists and
amphibolites) from the Southern Alps, listed in order of
increasing metamorphic grade]
Grapes, R., Watanabe, T., and Palmer, K., 1982: XRF
analyses of quartzofeldspathic schists and metacherts,
Franz-Josef-Fox Glacier area, Southern Alps of New Zealand.
Publication of the Geology Department no. 25. (Analytical
Facility Contribution no.11), Victoria University of
Wellington.
[38 major and trace element analyses of
metagreywackes/argillites and quartzo-feldspathic schists
and metacherts of the Haast Schist Terrane, Franz-Josef-Fox
Glacier area, ranging from chlorite to oligoclase
metamorphic grade]
Roser, B.P., and Grapes, R.H. 1990: Whole-rock and mineral
analyses of volcanic, pelagic and turbidite lithologies from
Red Rocks, Wellington. RSES Geology Board of Studies
Publication no. 6. (Analytical Facility Contribution no.14),
Victoria University of Wellington
Palmer, K., Roser, B.P., and Grapes, R.H., 1994: XRF
analyses of metabasalts and cherts from the Wellington
region.) ISSN 0111-1337. RSES Geology Board of Studies
Publication no. 14. (Analytical Facility Contribution
No.16), Victoria University of Wellington.
[Analyses of 227 metabasalts and 49 cherts, including
new and previously published data]
Roser, B.P., Grapes, R.H. and Palmer, K., 1995: XRF analyses
of sandstones and argillites from the Torlesse Terrane, New
Zealand. RSES Geology Board of Studies Publication no.15.
(Analytical Facility Contribution No.17), Victoria
University of Wellington.
[A compilation of data (mostly unpublished) from the
lower half of the North Island and the South Island]
Grapes, R.H., Smale, D., Gibson, G., Landis, C., Kawachi,
Y., Campbell H., Mortimer, N., Palmer, K and Ren, D., 1996:
X-ray fluorescence and electron microprobe analyses of
Western Province Permian and Triassic sediments and
associated intrusives, Northwest South Island of New Zealand
and Tasmania. Analytical Facility Publication no.18,
Victoria University of Wellington.
New whole-rock XRF analyses of metasediments (37
analyses) and intrusive rocks (18 analyses) together with
electron microprobe data for plagioclase, garnet, muscovite,
chlorite, chloritoid, epidote and ilmenite from the Parapara
Peak area, NW Nelson. Whole-rock XRF analyses of Topfer
Formation sediments, Reefton (18 analyses).
Palmer, K., Johnstone, R.D., Holt, S., Mortimer, N.
1991: XRF analyses of metamorphic rocks from the Caples and
Torlesse Terranes, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand
Geological Survey report G148.
Roser, B.P., Palmer, K., Nathan, S., Cooper, R.A., and
Tulloch, A.J. 1995. Whole-rock analyses of Paleozoic
sedimentary rocks from the Buller and Takaka Terranes, South
Island, New Zealand. IGNS science report 95/14.
Palmer, K., Mortimer, N., Nathan, S., Isaac, M.J., Field,
B.D., Sircombe, K.N., Black, P.M., Bush, S., & Orr, N.W.
1995: Chemical and petrographic analyses of some New Zealand
Paleozoic-Mesozoic metasedimentary and igneous rocks.
IGNS science report 95/16
[Includes XRF analyses of North Island Torlesse
terrane (156), Manaia Hill Group (13), TVZ basement (10),
Houhoura Complex (18), Northand Allochthon (3), Murihiku
terrane (6) and East Coast Cretaceous cover strata (9),
Otago schist (16), Greenland and Charleston Metamorphic
Groups (64); also conglomerate clasts from NI East Coast
Cretaceous cover strata (13), Torlesse terrane (21),
Whatuwhiwhi Formation (2), and Old Man Group
(15)]
IGNS science report 94/6
[68 analyses of the Separation Point Batholith, are
stored in the UK-IGBA data file, National Geochemical Data
Bank of the British Geological Survey]