The data presented are whole rock geochemical analyses (major and minor elements, REE), of Neoproterozoic turbiditic greywackes, Cadomian anatexitic rocks with metabasaltic inclusions, and post-collisional granodiorites. The data publication presents geochemical classification of the source regions of greywacke outcrops across the Lusatian massif, supported by microscopic lithoclast analysis. Discrimination further served to evaluate formerly assumed different geotectonic settings during age-different orogenic processes in the Western, as well as in the Eastern part of Lusatia. This was applied to the turbiditic greywackes, adjacent anatectic to granodioritic rocks, and mafic volcanogenic intercalations within the greywackes (tuffitic material) and the anatexites.
Analyses with different methods (ICP, AAS, XRF, OES, WET) were made between 1987 and 1993 in different laboratories of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the early GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. Economical constraints limited the capacity of and access to labs, and also available techniques in the GDR - limiting the spectrum of elements to be analysed, especially that of REE, as well. Switching from lab to lab (see table) became a necessary tool. Despite these problems, all data proved to be comparable. This also applies to data from later used techniques (ICP, from 1991 on) on some additional sample material, regardless of its higher resolution. In few cases, detection limits have not been been communicated.
The data are reported with the EarthChem Templates (https://doi.org/10.26022/IEDA/112263) and as original data tables. The data description is provided in English and German.
German title: Gesamtgesteins-Geochemie (Haupt-/Spurenelemente, REE) an neoproterozoischen Grauwacken (Lausitz-Gruppe), Cadomischen Anatexiten und Granodioriten (Saxothuringia, Deutschland)