Date ( Creation )

2011

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605560

Maintenance and update frequency

asNeeded As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Nickel , Soil analysis , Geochemical sampling , Selenium , Calcium , Lead , Copper , Chemical analysis , Arsenic , Zinc , Soils , Chromium , Cadmium , Iron , Geochemical maps , Top soil , Soil surveys , Soil chemistry , Soil sampling

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

The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section (iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk ) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.

Spatial representation type

textTable Text, table

Denominator

10000

Metadata language

English English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

Greater London Authority [id=41441]

 

Date ( Revision )

2009

Supplemental Information

Soil samples were collected at a density of four samples from every square kilometre. Each sample is a composite of five subsamples collected at the corners and centre of a 20 m square. The soil was collected using a 1-m stainless steel hand-held soil auger and stored in Kraft paper bags. The topsoil was collected from a standard depth in the soil profile, 5-20 cm. A surface soil (0-5 cm) and deep soil (35 ? 50 cm) were also collected but these samples are not routinely analysed. The surface and deep soils are archived at the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) in Keyworth along with the excess topsoil samples.

Distribution format

• Excel Files (Current BGS Version )

OnLine resource

BGS Homepage  

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Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

Soil samples were collected as part of the G-BASE project. Samples were analysed by XRFS which gives total element concentrations in the soil samples. Several different XRFS instruments were used (wave dispersive and energy dispersive) to determine 53 chemical elements. Three elements, chlorine (Cl), indium (In) and tellurium (Te) are excluded from the released data set as the majority (>95wt%) of the results for these elements are below the lower limit of detection. Loss on ignition (LOI) (an indicator of the soil�s organic content) and pH has also been determined.

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier

a3750a7d-4037-035e-e044-0003ba9b0d98   XML

Metadata language

English English

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Date stamp

2021-04-16

Metadata standard version

2.3

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605560