Date ( Creation )

1966

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605646

Maintenance and update frequency

irregular Irregular

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Bottom sampling , Sea floor sediments , Marine surveys , Marine sediments , Geological data , Marine geology

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

vector Vector

Denominator

250000

Metadata language

English English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

ENGLISH CHANNEL [id=2001401]

 

Date ( Revision )

2010

Geographic identifier

IRISH SEA [id=2001430]

 

Date ( Revision )

2010

Geographic identifier

NORTH SEA [id=2001452]

 

Date ( Revision )

2010

Geographic identifier

NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W) [id=2001453]

 

Date ( Revision )

2010

Geographic identifier

UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]

 

Date ( Creation )

1979

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S

E

W

Distribution format

• GIS ()

• Excel ()

• CSV ()

OnLine resource

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/GeoIndex/offshore.htm  

OnLine resource

Offshore theme  

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

Seabed sediment samples were collected by BGS during offshore surveys mainly using grabs, but also sediment corers on occasions (vibrocores, gravity cores). Particle size analysis was performed on approximately 29,000 samples. The dried samples were split into gravel, sand and mud fractions using seives and the weights recorded. The carbonate content of each fraction was then measured. The grain size of the sand fractions from a subset of the samples has been analysed in more detail at either whole or half phi intervals. For some locations more detailed measurements were made for both the gravel and sand fractions also. Measurements were also made on approximately 8000 downhole sub-samples from shallow cores and boreholes. Most test results are available digitally, although there is still a significant amount of legacy results stored on paper. Data are stored as part of the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC). Core material are managed as part of the BGS Materials collection and are available for examination, testing or subsampling.

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier

c35e3405-9db0-6d8b-e044-0003ba9b0d98   XML

Metadata language

English English

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Date stamp

2021-10-22

Metadata standard version

2.3

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605646