Marine Samples and Cores

This is the collection of cores and samples held by BGS for the sea areas around the UK. It includes material collected by BGS during its mapping projects and material donated to BGS by other organisations. The main core and sample types are grab samples (sea-bed), gravity cores, vibrocores and rock-drill cores (up to 6m in length), and borehole cores (up to 274m in length). The sea-bed grab samples are Holocene sediments present at the sea-bed and are stored in plastic jars. Where possible, sub-sample material has been retained after analysis. The bulk of the cores consist of Holocene and Pleistocene material. The rest are of bedrock ranging in age from Neogene to Pre-Cambrian. A lot of the core was collected in plastic liner tubing and the unlithified cores have been split vertically. The bulk of the material was collected in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and early 1990's with ongoing additions of new sample and cores each year. The distribution is very variable, but, in general, there are grab samples and/or shallow cores spaced about every 5 - 10km across the entire UK Continental Shelf. In some localised areas the sampling density is much higher. The samples and cores are applicable to a wide range of uses including environmental, geotechnical and geological studies.

Date (Publication): 2005-09-05

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13603048

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency: Monthly

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Site investigations
data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
MEDIN
Marine geochemistry
Marine geology

dataCentre

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Samples and cores collected by BGS are available for inspection, measurement and sub-sampling. Access to non-BGS material may be subject to seeking permission from the owner. A copy of any new data and reports arising from work done on the the sample and core material should be submitted to BGS to add to its archive. Data and reports can be held as commercial-in-confidence for an agreed period of time.

Use constraints: 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: Text, table

Distance: 5000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: ATLANTIC OCEAN [id=905000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier: UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Begin date: 1970 Before

End date: 1970 After

Vertical extent

Minimum value: 0.0000

Maximum value: 2000.0000

Vertical datum

No information provided.

Supplemental Information: The bulk of the sample and core material are held at the BGS Keyworth Core Store and is available for inspection, sub-sampling and measurement.

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

Name	Version
Material - grab samples, gravity cores, vibrocores, rock drill cores(up to 6m long) and borehole cores(up to 240m long)

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
HTTP	http://www.bgs.ac.uk/	BGS Homepage

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: 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

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: No

Statement: BGS samples and cores are archived in the core store after examination and analysis. Non-BGS material may be archived directly without any examination or analysis by BGS. The volume and timing of adding new material is very variable. There is no requirement for organisations to donate material to BGS. When material is offered to the archive, BGS assesses if the material enhances the spatial/geological coverage of the already archived material before agreeing to accept it.