UKGEOS Glasgow Soil Chemistry 03_18 dataset

The UK Geoenergy Observatories (UKGEOS) Glasgow facility, baseline soil geochemistry dataset released from the BGS comprises an excel file with two spreadsheets. The first spreadsheet contains information on the chemical composition of 90 topsoil (0 - 20 cm) samples collected from seven initially proposed borehole sites for the UKGEOS Glasgow facility, and from two control sites, in February-March 2018 (03-18). Ten samples were collected from each site prior to installation of the UKGEOS Glasgow facility, and underwent laboratory analysis. Chemical data for pH and the total concentrations of 54 inorganic and 75 organic substances in the soil samples are presented. In addition, the dataset contains locational and descriptive information about the samples noted during sampling. The analyte name, element chemical symbols, analytical method, units of measurement and limits of quantification are recorded in header rows at the top of the spreadsheet. The dataset includes qualifiers, highlighting any quality control issues reported with the data. The data qualifiers are explained in the second spreadsheet released with the data. Further details about the dataset can be found in the accompanying report http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527798/.
 
Citation proposal
Enquiries (British Geological Survey) (2020) . UKGEOS Glasgow Soil Chemistry 03_18 dataset. https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/a7d17b75-c3f3-2f5a-e054-002128a47908

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Date ( Publication )
2020-06-12
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607627

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Environmental science , Chemical analysis , Inorganic geochemistry , Organic geochemistry , Base line data , Top soil , Pollution , Monitoring , Soil chemistry
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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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]"
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grid Grid
Metadata language
English English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
Glasgow [id=1298677]

 

Date ( Revision )
2002

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Vertical extent

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0.0000
Maximum value
199.0000

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No information provided.
Supplemental Information
For more information on the project, visit www.ukgeos.ac.uk.

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  • pdf ()

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OnLine resource
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item135686  
OnLine resource
http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527798/  
OnLine resource
https://doi.org/10.5285/0bfdeb32-db24-4221-9d02-f074f51edff2  
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Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
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false

Conformance result

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
false
Statement
Each soil sample comprised a composite collected by hand-auger from the corners and centre of a 1 x 1 m square. Samples were freeze-dried, sieved to 2 mm and analysed to determine soil pH (by CaCl2 slurry method), the CrVI content (by speciated isotope dilution mass spectrometry), the carbon content (by carbon analyser), the total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) content (by Iatroscan) and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) content (by gas chromatography mass spectrometry) at the BGS laboratories. The total concentrations of 54 inorganic chemical parameters were determined by x-ray fluorescence spectrometry by Panalytical Ltd. A sub-set of 10 soil samples was screened for the presence of asbestos prior to sample preparation and analysis by hand picking and polarising light microscopy at i2 Analytical Ltd. In addition, the BGS recorded observations about the soil samples during sample collection. Laboratory data underwent quality assurance prior to reporting. Where possible, analytical methods were UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) accredited. The BGS undertook further quality control checking and data conditioning to create the combined laboratory and field observation dataset for release. More information is available in the accompanying metadata report http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527798/.

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a7d17b75-c3f3-2f5a-e054-002128a47908   XML
Metadata language
English English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2021-02-25
Metadata standard version
2.3

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Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607627
 
 

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