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Carbon dioxide flux and isotopic composition from sedimentary rock weathering, Waiapu River catchment, New Zealand

These data were collected to study oxidative weathering processes in the Waiapu River catchment, New Zealand, with potential carbon release sourced from the oxidation of petrogenic organic carbon or carbonate dissolution coupled to the oxidation of sulfide minerals. There, in mudstones exposed in a highly erosive gully complex, in situ CO2 emissions were measured with drilled gas accumulation chambers following the design by Soulet et al. (2018, Biogeosciences 15, 4087-4102, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4087-2018). Temporal and spatial variability in CO2 flux can be put in context with environmental changes (e.g., temperature and hydrology). For this, CO2 release from 5 different chambers, which were installed over a transect of ~ 10 m length in a gully above a nearby streambed, was measured several times over a short study period (circa one week). In addition, the gaseous CO2 storage (partial pressure) in the shallow weathering zone was measured prior to a CO2 flux measurement. To understand the source of CO2, gas samples were collected and their stable and radioactive carbon isotope compositions determined. In this process, we identified a contaminant, which was associated with the chamber installation, that can be traced in the gas samples that were collected within 4 days following the installation. Details of the subsequent data analysis and interpretation can be found in: Roylands et al. 2022, Chemical Geology: Capturing the short-term variability of carbon dioxide emissions from sedimentary rock weathering in a remote mountainous catchment, New Zealand. This work was supported by the European Research Council (Starting Grant to Robert G. Hilton, ROC-CO2 project, grant 678779).

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Date (Creation)
2022-05-24
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607943
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

IFREMER

Guillaume Soulet

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Originator

NERC Radiocarbon Facility

Mark Garnett

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Originator

University of Oxford

Robert Hilton

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Originator

University of Durham

Tobias Roylands

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Originator

British Geological Survey

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British Geological Survey

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • Carbon isotopes

  • Carbon dioxide

  • Sedimentary rocks

  • Weathering

  • NGDC Deposited Data

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  • NGDC Deposited Data
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  • NERC_DDC

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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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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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Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
NEW ZEALAND [id=590000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

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NZ

ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision

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NZL

ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

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Begin date
2018-04-29
End date
2018-05-05
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
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MS Excel

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British Geological Survey

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https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item173494

Data

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https://doi.org/10.5285/467fcf54-eb20-4a19-a62d-8867516de87c

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121024

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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication)
2011
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See the referenced specification

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No

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Title

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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Rock chambers to measure CO2 fluxes were installed following the method of Soulet et al., (2018), Biogeosciences, with each chamber drilled directly into bare mudstones undergoing weathering, using a hand auger. 5 different chambers were installed over a transect of ~ 10 m length in a gully in the Waiapu catchment, New Zealand (37.85986° S, 178.19028° E). CO2 fluxes were measured using an infra-red gas analyser, and a molecular sieve sampling system to trap CO2. Repeatedly measured CO2 fluxes can be compared to changes in environmental conditions, including air and chamber temperatures, rainfall and river flow. Furthermore, the carbon isotopic composition of CO2 was measured by IRMS and AMS for source identification. In this process, a contaminant was identified, which was associated with the chamber installation, that can be traced in the gas samples that were collected within up to 4 days following the installation.

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Metadata language
English
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Dataset
Date stamp
2025-06-22
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

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Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607943

 
 

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