2001 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 Environmental Sampling Survey, North Sea, May 2001 Data Report ERTSL 637 - Sediment hydrocarbons and metals analyses

Sediment samples were collected from selected areas of the southern North Sea as part of the ongoing Department of Trade and Industry's (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA2). The aim of the survey was to describe the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of a range of offshore sandbanks and pockmarks (more than 12 km from the coast). The survey focused on three main study areas in the southern North Sea: the Dogger Bank study area; the South Fladen Pockmark study area and a major sand bank area off the coasts of Norfolk and Lincolnshire. This report presents the following sediment data: Total hydrocarbon and n-alkane concentrations; 2 to 6 ring polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) content; selected metals concentrations.

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Date (Publication)
2001-05-01
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British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_9
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British Geological Survey (BGS)

Paul Henni

offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk

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Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

enquiries@decc.gsi.gov.uk

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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

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The SEAs data were produced as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme; Crown Copyright, all rights reserved. The DECC SEA must be acknowledged in any maps or publications that make use of the data. All the data files are freely available to the public. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS. BGS (NERC) has been contracted by DECC to publish SEA datasets on its behalf. All intellectual property rights (including , without limitation, copyrights, database rights and all other rights which subsist or may at any time in the future subsist in the Dataset(s)) in the Dataset(s) ('Intellectual Property Rights') are owned by DECC (formerly the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform). BGS has been authorised by DECC to use SEA datasets for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit basis'. BGS has been authorised by DECC to pass on SEA datasets to third parties so that they can use them for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit' basis.

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  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Oceans
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SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer
Date (Revision)
2006-01-01
Code
North Sea
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Begin date
2001-05-05
End date
2001-05-21
Supplemental Information

http://www.offshore-sea.org.uk/site/index.php

Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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    http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/sea/home.html

    Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal
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    The sampling strategy of the identified sandbanks was developed by Hartley Anderson Ltd (HAL - contracted as principal scientists). Sampling operations were conducted from the R/V Kommandor Jack with overall direction of field operations undertaken by HAL as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. ERT (Scotland) Ltd (ERTSL) was contracted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) via Geotek Ltd/HAL to retrieve the seabed samples as well as processing, storage and chain-of-custody of the samples prior to initiation of the analysis programme by ERTSL. The analyses were: Total hydrocarbon and n-alkane concentrations by gas chromatography (GC); 2 to 6 ring polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (P AH) content by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS); Selected metals concentrations. This resulted in the publication of this report in 2001.

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    aba64100-c100-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd XML
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    English
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    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2011-08-30
    Metadata standard name

    MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
    Metadata standard version

    Version 2.3.5
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    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Geological Survey (BGS)

    Mary Mowat

    offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk

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