c62013d8-830e-5b73-e054-002128a47908 English dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-17 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607783 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700) Wireline logging and core analysis datasets collected from Swanworth Quarry and Metherhills boreholes during the NERC funded Rapid Global Geological Events (RGGE) project. 2001 creation 2021-06-28 publication http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607783 This dataset contains the collated wireline logs, stratigraphy and core analysis of the three boreholes drill as part of the publicly funded Rapid Global Geological Events Project (RGGE) which ran between 1995-1998. The aim of the RGGE project was to identify the effects of climatic changes on modern sediments. The project focused on the Kimmeridge Clay due to its unbroken sequence of fossiliferous marine mudstones. These mudstones have compositional variations in organic content, minerology, fauna and clay content which reflect changes in both the climate and sea level. Over the course of the project the entire sequence of the Kimmeridge Clay was cored across three boreholes, two at Swanworth Quarry and one at Metherhills. 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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]" textTable English geoscientificInformation -2.1258 -2.0452 50.6029 50.6110 1995 2001 The RGGE project was funded by NERC (GST/02/1346 and GST/06/1346) PRN file witheld GIF file witheld SQL file witheld PDF witheld Microsoft Excel (CSV) witheld Text file (TXT) witheld COP file witheld Microsoft Word witheld HTML Digital Log Information Standard (DLIS) witheld Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item167033 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Data download https://doi.org/10.5285/a8e86b5e-f341-419e-be98-0463efe3201f WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Jenkyns, H.C., Coe, A.L., Gallois, R.W., Hesselbo, S.P., Marshall, J.E.A., Morgans-Bell, H.S., Sellwood, B.W., Tyson, R.V., Weedon, G.P., Williams, C.J. (2021): Wireline logging and core analysis datasets collected from Swanworth Quarry and Metherhills boreholes during the NERC funded Rapid Global Geological Events (RGGE) project. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/a8e86b5e-f341-419e-be98-0463efe3201f information dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false 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 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false This data resulted from a multi-disciplinary systematic sampling and laboratory analysis programme from the Swanworth Quarry 1 and Metherhills borehole cores related to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Rapid Global Geological Events (RGGE) special research topic to examine rhythmicity and its possible causes in the Kimmeridge Clay. For more information see: H.S. Morgans-Bell, A.L. Coe, S.P. Hesselbo, H.C. Jenkyns, G.P. Weedon, J.E.A. Marshall, R.V. Tyson, C.J. Williams. 2001. Integrated stratigraphy of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic) based on exposures and boreholes in south Dorset, UK. Geological Magazine, 183(5), 511-539. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756801005738