Date ( Creation )

1984

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480107

Maintenance and update frequency

irregular Irregular

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Trace elements , Geology , Strontium isotopes , Stable isotopes , Geochemistry

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Use constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

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

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.

Spatial representation type

grid Grid

Denominator

10000

Metadata language

English English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

EAST GRAMPIANS, NORTH OF CAIRNGORMS [id=146911]

 

Date ( Creation )

1979

N

S

E

W

Supplemental Information

Part of East Grampians project initially, now Dalradian-wide, including Northern Ireland. A working database, although maintenance is now sporadic and little new data have been added in recent years. The project task from which these data arose is no longer active. The whole-rock analyses have been used particularly to aid lithostratigraphical correlation. All samples are located by British National Grid coordinates to the nearest 10m or better. The isotope data were acquired as part of a PhD study by C W Thomas in the late 1990s. The database is not currently being added to, but is still being used in various studies. It is likely that data will continue to be added sporadically in the coming years; the database may be extended via collaboration with academic colleagues. The combined data provide wide-ranging insights into marine chemistry contemporary with deposition of the limestones and the way in which this chemistry changed with time during the Neoproterozoic, and they elucidate subsequent effects of diagenesis and metamorphism and the outcrop and grain-scale. Thus there are some data which are missing and there are some inconsistencies in the way some of the geochemical data in the whole-rock section are treated (e.g. with regard to `not analysed? and `below detection? flags). The data are stand-alone, in that they are not included in any current corporate geochemical database. However, there are sufficient administrative data attributes attached to the geochemical data to allow integration with any other data set, especially in a GIS environment. An advance would be to include Lextrat codes within the database to allow for linkages with the BGS Lexicon of named rock units, but this has not been done because of lack of funds and incompleteness of the stratigraphical assignations of all samples.

Distribution format

• MS ACCESS DATABASE - Access report. ()

• DELIMITED ASCII - ASCII files. ()

• ARCVIEW - Locations in ARCView as event themes. ()

OnLine resource

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Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

The database contains a range of geochemical data for metamorphosed limestones from the Dalradian of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Data entry via ACCESS forms to RDBMS. Form include some validation traps.

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier

9df8df51-6327-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98   XML

Metadata language

English English

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Date stamp

2021-12-08

Metadata standard version

2.3

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480107