Dissolved methane concentrations in groundwater (NERC Grant NE/R017832/1)
This dataset contains dissolved methane concentrations from groundwater in Great Britain, predominantly from England. Data were collated in Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) format from four publicly accessible sources: the British Geological Survey (from Bell et al., 2017), the Environment Agency for England (from the online Water Quality Archive), and local baseline data for the shale gas sites of Preston New Road (from Cuadrilla Resources) and Kirby Misperton (from Third Energy). In total, 2997 dissolved methane concentrations are included in the dataset and were collected from 922 unique locations from October 1992 to July 2018. The data were used within a Bayesian framework to create a dynamic baseline (a baseline that can change in time and space to reflect ongoing environmental change) that can predict the probability that a change in dissolved methane concentration has occurred, for example in the context of monitoring aquifers at shale gas sites using hydraulic fracturing methods. The data presented are the underlying dataset to Wilson et al., 2020, Science of the Total Environment: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134854. Bell, R. A., Darling, W. G., Ward, R. S., Basava-Reddi, L., Halwa, L., Manamsa, K., & Dochartaigh, B. Ó. (2017). A baseline survey of dissolved methane in aquifers of Great Britain. Science of the Total Environment, 601, 1803-1813. Wilson, M. P., Worrall, F., Davies, R. J., & Hart, A. (2020). A dynamic baseline for dissolved methane in English groundwater. Science of The Total Environment, 711, 134854.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2021-04-07
- Citation identifier
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607727
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Durham
Dr Miles Wilson
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Originator British Geological Survey
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Distributor British Geological Survey
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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Environmental science
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Groundwater
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Aquifers
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Methane
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Hydraulic fracturing
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Shale
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NGDC Deposited Data
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Water
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NERC_DDC
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- licenceOGL
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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.
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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- Text, table
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- English
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- Geoscientific information
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GBN
ISO 3166_2 2009 revision
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GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
- Begin date
- 1992-10-01
- End date
- 2018-07-31
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
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Name Version MS Excel
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
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Protocol Linkage Name https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item164205 Data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://dro.dur.ac.uk/29718/ Associated Paper
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Protocol Linkage Name http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/13566/ Doctoral Thesis
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Protocol Linkage Name https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134854 Published Paper
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Protocol Linkage Name https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.191 Published Paper
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Protocol Linkage Name https://doi.org/10.5285/be37166c-7dc3-47a0-a6ab-2a2794a4db2d Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
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dataset
Conformance result
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
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- 2011
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See the referenced specification
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Conformance result
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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- Statement
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The BGS dissolved methane concentration data were downloaded from the supplementary material of Bell et al. (2017). Dissolved methane concentrations in English groundwater were downloaded from the Environment Agency Water Quality Archive for the years 2000-2017, inclusive. Only those entries with identifiable grid references and location names were used. Measurements taken for statutory failures and unplanned reactive monitoring were not removed from the dataset. Waste monitoring measurements were also retained in the dataset. Dissolved methane concentrations for the Preston New Road site were compiled from the Cuadrilla Resources Ltd. ePortal. Where multiple concentration measurements were taken within a month the mean concentration was used. The same approach was used for the Kirby Misperton site using the monitoring reports submitted by Third Energy to the Environment Agency.
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- bf8b16d9-58ad-2a6f-e054-002128a47908 XML
- Metadata language
- English
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-10-12
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
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