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Ellesmere Port-1 Core Scanning Dataset

A core scanning dataset from part of the Ellesmere Port-1 drill core that was drilled for unconventional hydrocarbons in 2014. Approximate 40 m of core from the Bowland Shale Formation in the Ellesmere Port-1 (1532.7 – 1663.15 m) was scanned for high-resolution optical images and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) downcore point measurements using the Itrax MC core scanner (Cox Analytical Systems) at the Core Scanning Facility (CSF) at the British Geological Survey. Core scanning was utilised as part of the commission phase of this facility.

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Date (Creation)
2022-08-08
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607962
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

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enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor

British Geological Survey

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enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Originator

British Geological Survey

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enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • UK Location (INSPIRE)

  • X ray fluorescence spectroscopy

  • Drill core

dataCentre
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
Keywords
  • 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]"

Spatial representation type
Vector
Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
Ellesmere Port [id=1285357]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: OS gazetteer 2002 revision

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Begin date
2018-11-19
End date
2018-11-22
Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
Distribution format
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dfl

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item175249

Data

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dataset

Conformance result

Title

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

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
No

Conformance result

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
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass
No
Statement

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) measurements and optical images were collected using an Itrax MC core scanner (Cox Analytical Systems) at the Core Scanning Facility (CSF) at the British Geological Survey, Keyworth. Before core scanning, fragments of the split core were aligned with a levelling tool to ensure optimal alignment of the detector. XRF was measured at 1 cm step-size and 30 s integration time. For each core section, an initial surface scan was performed to compute the trajectory of the XRF detector and to acquire a standard resolution optical image (210 µm per pixel). The Itrax MC core scanner automatically produces an XRF sumspectra for each core section, which was peak-fitted using the processing software Q-Spec version 8.6. A single fitting template has been used to fit the whole core succession. In this software, the mean square error (MSE) indicates the goodness-of-fit of the mathematical model compared to the measured energies. MSE values are shown in the fitted result files and can be used to identify region of poor fit. The XRF elemental data is presented as raw counts (peak area). The raw count data provides an indication of variation in elemental abundances along the core, but is not a quantitative analysis. Elemental intensities of <500 counts should be considered with caution as signals for very low counts are primarily dominated by noise.

Metadata

File identifier
e66d904c-6826-37df-e053-0937940a5c7d XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-06
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607962

 
 

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Keywords

UK Location (INSPIRE)


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