Identification info

Metadata Language

English (en)

Dataset Reference Date ()

2018-06-26

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607346

Maintenance and update frequency

notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Pleistocene

• Speleothems

• Lamination

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Limitations on Public Access

otherRestrictions

Other constraints

no limitations

Other constraints

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.

Use constraints

otherRestrictions

Other constraints

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.

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Extent

SOUTH AFRICA [id=670000]

Dataset Reference Date ()

1979

Extent

ZA

Dataset Reference Date ()

2009

Extent

ZAF

Dataset Reference Date ()

2009

Begin date

2011-09-01

End date

2014-09-01

 

Distribution Information

Data format

• Text file

  ()

 

Quality Scope

dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

Speleothems were imaged on a Leica SP2 confocal microscope using an oil immersion objective lens. Individual images of 1024 x 1024 pixels at 2x zoom were acquired over the entire length of the speleothems by 3 microscope fields in the y axis. The Leica LCS software automatically stitched all the image frames to produce a montage of both samples. Laser excitation wavelengths of 488 nm and 515 nm were used to detect the autofluorescence of the organic matter with emission detection set to 540 – 680 nm; pixel resolution was 0.183 µm. Greyscale line profiles were produced for each photomosaic using the image processing software ImageJ and imported into Matlab. The laminae were measured and counted using the automated peak-counting algorithm of Smith et al. (2009). Age models were produced using a combination of magnetostratigraphy, orbital tuning and U-Th dating (see Hopley et al., 2018).

Metadata

File identifier

6f9e75e7-993e-620d-e054-002128a47908 XML

Metadata Language

English (en)

Resource type

dataset

Metadata Date

2023-03-21

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3