Date (Publication)

2005-05-03

Citation identifier

British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_75

Point of contact

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	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

Resource format

Name	Version
Delimited
Documents

Keywords

• NDGO0001

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

• Carbon concentrations in sediment
• Concentration of organic matter in sediments
• Inorganic chemical composition of sediment or rocks
• Nitrogen concentrations in sediment
• Sediment grain size parameters

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages

• crust
• sediment

Use limitation

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.

Access constraints

Intellectual property rights

Distance

5  m

Language

English

Topic category

• Environment
• Geoscientific information
• Oceans

Title

SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer

Date (Revision)

2006-01-01

Code

Irish Sea

Begin date

2004-01-01

End date

2004-01-01

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

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

As part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme heavy metal concentrations and sedimentological characteristics were determined in respectively 61 and 68 samples by the Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO - National Geological Survey (NITG-TNO). Trace and heavy metals (As, Ba, Cr, Cu, Cd, Fe, Hg, Pb, Mn, Ni, Sr, V and Zn) were extracted by aqua regia and analysed by inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometry, graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry, hydride generation AAS and cold vapour atomic fluorescence as appropriate. In addition, total barium was measured by Flame AAS following alkali fusion to ensure dissolution of all barium sulphate. Particle size analysis and organic matter analyses were undertaken according to generally accepted methodologies: i.e. Dry sieving and pipette and/or particle counter analysis. The data required included both absolute and relative sediment weights by size fraction, together with statistical and graphical summaries of that data. In addition to the particle size data, sample carbonate content (i.e. Loss on acid treatment) and organic matter content (i.e. Loss on high temperature treatment) was reported for each sample. Total organic carbon and nitrogen was determined from a subsample of the particle size sample using a C/N analyser.

Metadata

File identifier

aba64100-c13f-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	Point of contact