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Calibration of Speleothem Luminescene Excitation-Emission Wavelength Variations and the Development of High Res Records of Holocene Climate Change for NW Europe

Fibre-optic spectrophotometry permits the non-destructive analysis of speleothem luminescence wavelength with a temporal resolution of 1-10 years. This luminescence derives from the overlying soil organic waste matter: humification rate is climatically controlled in temperate latitudes. A pilot study demonstrates a correlation between the luminescence emission wavelength and mean annual rainfall over the last 70 years, and for the last 3000 years a remarkable 80-100 cyclicity in luminescence is observed, as well as longer term luminescence trends and the presence of short lived, severe events. This project aims to (1) provide a calibration of stalagmite luminescence over the last 100 years from sites contrasting climate, before (2) providing high resolution records of Holocene climate change from multiple samples.

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Date (Creation)
1998-11-23
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605325
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

University of Birmingham

Baker, Professor A

not available

Principal investigator

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • Climatology

  • NGDC Deposited Data

  • Climate change

dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

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Either : (i) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under license; and / or (ii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted before the dataset can be provided to, or accessed by, BGS staff or external clients. 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 access restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (IPR@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.
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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.

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.

Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Supplemental Information

GR8/03711 and GR8/A3711 (extension) All the data from GR8/03711 and GR8/A3711 is lodged with the World Data Centre for Climatology in the USA, which is the international archive for past climate proxy data. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/

Reference System Information

No information provided.
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Name Version
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/

Index of /pub/data/paleo/

Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Other

non geographic 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

Completed. Period of Award: 23 Nov 1998 - 22 Nov 2000

Metadata

File identifier
9df8df52-d739-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name

non geographic dataset

Date stamp
2026-01-14
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605325

 
 

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