Late Glacial Sea Level Minima in the Western British Isles (NERC Grant NE/H024069/1)

Due to differential loading of ice on Britain and Ireland the glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) response and therefore sea-level record will vary with distance from the centre of the British Irish Ice Sheet. GIA models are tested against geological observations, however there is a paucity of observations below -10m depth and the lateglacial period when the BIIS retreated leading to a rapid response of both sea-level and GIA. The aim of the project was to use geophysical data, ground truthed by core material, to find evidence of lateglacial sea-level minima in the Irish and Celtic Sea to refine these GIA models. Cruise log and digital copies of the core information (location, water depth, core length) taken onboard the research cruise CE12008 on the RV Celtic Explorer. A GeoReseource 6m vibrocorer was used to collect sediment samples. Cores where taken at multiple sites and from southern and eastern Ireland: Bantry Bay, Dunmanus Bay, Waterford,Offshore County Louth and Dundalk Bay, offshore Isle of Man; offshore Wales: Cardingan Bay; and offshore Northern Ireland: Kilkeel and Dundrum Bay, Belfast Lough.
 
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. Late Glacial Sea Level Minima in the Western British Isles (NERC Grant NE/H024069/1). https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/376ecc98-aa29-62bd-e054-002128a47908

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Date ( Creation )
2016
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606941

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Core analysis , Sea level , Foraminifera , Drill core , Mollusca , Carbon dating
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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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.
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
Metadata language
English English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
CELTIC SEA [id=2001353]

 

Date ( Revision )
2010

Geographic identifier
IRISH SEA [id=2001430]

 

Date ( Revision )
2010

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NERC grant split award, lead grant NE/H024301/1, associated grant NE/H024069/1
Reference system identifier
OGP / GEOG

 

Date ( Revision )
2005

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OnLine resource
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2015.08.021  
OnLine resource
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item75409  
OnLine resource
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item59889  
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Date ( Publication )
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
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false

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Pass
false
Statement
Cores were collected in 2012 on the RV Celtic Explorer, cruise number CE12008. Core were collected using a GeoResources 6m barrel, 11 cm diameter virbrocorer. Each core was split, visually logged, photographed and sampled for radiocarbon dating. We used monospecific foraminifera and paired mollusc for dating. The radiocarbon dates were process and analysed at NERC radiocarbon facility in East Kilbride. Foraminifera assemblage counts were sample from selected cores. The samples were volumetrically measured, sieved through 500µm and 63µm sieves with the 500-63µm fraction used for the foraminifera analysis. The samples were picked wet.

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dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2020-10-22
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3

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http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606941
 
 

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