2004 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA5 Analysis of seabed sediment samples for heavy metals (North Sea)

As part of the UK Department of Trade and Industry's (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) ongoing sectorial Strategic Environmental Assessment a seabed survey programme (SEA5) was undertaken between August and early October 2003 for the UKCS areas lying between Scotland and Orkney and Shetland. This report summarises the sediment trace metal data generated from the analyses of selected samples from the study areas detailed: Fair Isle; Outer Moray Firth A; Outer Moray Firth B; Smith Bank; Southern Trench.

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Date (Publication)
2004-07-19
Citation identifier
British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_60
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey (BGS)

Paul Henni

offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk

Custodian

Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

enquiries@decc.gsi.gov.uk

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Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
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Documents
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

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
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Language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Oceans
Title

SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer
Date (Revision)
2006-01-01
Code
North Sea
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Begin date
2003-08-01
End date
2003-10-01
Supplemental Information

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

Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
    OnLine resource
    Protocol Linkage Name
    http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/sea/home.html

    Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal
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    Dataset
    Statement

    This report was compiled by Harwell Scientifics under contract to Geotek Ltd as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. Sediment samples were collected between August and early October 2003. 79 samples were analysed for heavy metals (arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, copper, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, strontium, vanadium and zinc). The samples were dried in an oven at 30 C. The samples were then treated by strong acid extraction process (aqua regia) followed by multi-element analysis by ICP-AES (Perkin Elmer Opotima 4300DV) followed by in-house method HS/GWI/1075 issue 2 to analyse for arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, strontium, vanadium and zinc. The aqua regia digests were analysed for mercury by ICP-MS (Agilent 7500c) following in-house method HS/GWI/1002 issue 15. The barium content of the sediment was measured by ICP-AES following alkali fusion to ensure dissolution of all barium sulphate. As a quality assurance measure a reference material LGC 6138 and an inhouse material were prepared and analysed by the same method as the samples.

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    File identifier
    aba64100-c130-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2011-08-30
    Metadata standard name

    MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
    Metadata standard version

    Version 2.3.5
    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Geological Survey (BGS)

    Mary Mowat

    offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk

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