Date ( Creation )

2021-03-10

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607720

Maintenance and update frequency

notPlanned Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Water chemistry , Inorganic chemistry , Surface waters , Pollution , Monitoring , Chemical analysis , Environmental science , Base line data

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Use constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

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]"

Spatial representation type

textTable Text, table

Metadata language

English English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

Glasgow [id=1298677]

 

Date ( Revision )

2002

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W

Distribution format

• Text document ()

• PDF ()

• MS Excel ()

OnLine resource

Data  

OnLine resource

Report  

OnLine resource

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)  

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

This dataset contains chemical analysis of 98 surface water samples (84 samples and 14 field duplicates) collected monthly over a period of 14 months from six locations at the UKGEOS Glasgow Observatory. Field measurements of surface water pH, redox potential, specific electrical conductance, temperature, dissolved oxygen and alkalinity were recorded at each sampling location using portable meters. Surface water samples were collected for laboratory analysis to determine the concentration of 71 inorganic analytes and 10 organic substances. These included the following analysed at the BGS laboratories: major cations and trace elements by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS); major anions by ion chromatography and ICP-MS; Cr(VI) and Cr(III) by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) ICP-MS; dissolved carbon content by carbon analyser and the stable isotope ratios of oxygen, deuterium and carbon by isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Concentrations of the following organic parameters were determined at the Scottish Water Edinburgh laboratory: total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) by gas chromatography flame ionisation detector and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations by HPLC fluorescence detection. In addition, the BGS recorded observations about the surface water samples during collection. Where possible, analytical methods were UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) accredited. Laboratory data underwent quality assurance prior to reporting. The BGS undertook further quality control checking 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/529818.

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier

bda47992-1799-5100-e054-002128a47908   XML

Metadata language

English English

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Date stamp

2021-06-23

Metadata standard version

2.3

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607720