2004 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA5 Analysis - Particle size and organic matter (North Sea)
This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA5) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). This report describes the results of particle size and organic content analysis on samples obtained during the 'Biology' Leg of the SEA5 programme (RV Jean Charcot, September 17th - October 8th 2003; Outer Moray Firth and Northern North Sea). 216 samples sediment samples where analysed for particle size distribution and organic content. Standard geological methods were used to derive the following: percent total carbon, percent nitrogen, percent carbonate, percent organic material, particle size distribution and mud:sand:gravel ratio. Data are summarised within an Excel spreadsheet.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2004-05-01
- Citation identifier
- British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_57
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Paul Henni
Custodian Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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Name Version Delimited
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Geology
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
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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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- Intellectual property rights
- Distance
- 5 m
- Language
- English
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Oceans
- Title
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SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer
- Date (Revision)
- 2006-01-01
- Code
- North Sea
- Begin date
- 2003-09-17
- End date
- 2003-10-08
- Supplemental Information
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/sea/home.html Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal
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- Dataset
- Statement
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As part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme 216 samples were collected from RV Jean Charcot, September 17th - October 8th 2003 were provided by Geotek Ltd./ERT Scotland for the analysis of sediment particle size distribution and organic content. Standard geological methods were used to derive the following: percent total carbon, percent nitrogen, percent carbonate, percent organic material, particle size distribution and mud:sand:gravel ratio.. The LS230 laser diffraction machine was regularly serviced and calibrated with known standards. Quality assurance protocols outlined in ISO13320 were followed. The report was prepared by Partrac.
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- File identifier
- aba64100-c12d-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2011-08-30
- Metadata standard name
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MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
- Metadata standard version
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Version 2.3.5
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Mary Mowat
Point of contact