33062cba-4df7-2036-e054-002128a47908 English dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-16 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606913 Detrital zircon U-Pb ages from the Taklamakan Desert, the Yellow River, and the Chinese Loess Plateau. (NERC grant NE/I009248/1) 2011-10 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606913 The dataset contains detrital zircon U-Pb ages from a large scale detrital provenance study of modern and recent sand and silt from the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) and its proposed sources in the Yellow River, its Tibetan headwaters, and the Taklamakan Desert, which lies upwind from the CLP. (NERC grant NE/I009248/1) Dr Pieter Vermeesch University College London Dept of Earth Sciences Kathleen Lonsdale Building, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT United Kingdom not available pointOfContact notApplicable https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/33062cba-4df7-2036-e054-002128a47908.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Loess Geochronology Deserts Zircon Uranium thorium lead dating BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision NGDC Deposited Data dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions no limitations The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible. otherRestrictions The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused. Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear. English geoscientificInformation British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation CHINA [id=501000] ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision CHN ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision CN 75.0000 113.0000 34.0000 50.0000 2012-09 NERC parent grant NE/I008837/1, child grants NE/I009248/1 and NE/I008918/1 Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheet https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379112005343 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link download https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms9511 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link download https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X15007992 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link download https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018215003211 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link download dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false U-Pb ages were measured by LA-ICP-MS at the London Geochronology Centre (UCL) using an Agilent 7700x ICP-MS coupled to an NWR193 UV laser. Data processing was done with GLITTER software.