Geochemical data of crystalline target lithologies of the Ries impact crater, Germany

This data set comprises major (XRF) and trace (XRF, ICP-MS, ICP-AES) element geochemistry of 185 samples of crystalline target lithologies of the Nördlinger Ries impact crater in Southern Germany. The sample set was originally collected by D. Stöffler for the investigation of shock metamorphism and Schmitt and Siebenschock for a research project on the occurrence of impact diamonds in the Nördlinger Ries crater. The data are supplementary material to Siegert et al. (2017, http://doi.org/10.1130/G39198.1) and are supplemented by by geochemical data of melt-bearing impact breccia (suevite) from the research drill core FBN 73 of the Ries impact crater (Siegert et al., 2017; http://doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2017.002. More information about sample preparation, methodology and precision expectations are given in the Explanatory File. Repository samples and thin sections are available for more or less the whole sample set of Stöffler and selected samples from Schmitt and Siebenschock, and are stored in the impactite collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.