Date (Creation)

2023-03-20

Citation identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608069

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Originator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Originator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Principal investigator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Geochemical data

• X ray fluorescence spectroscopy

• Spatial data

• Kriging

• Variograms

• UK Location (INSPIRE)

• Top soil

dataCentre

• UK Location (INSPIRE)

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

licenceOGL

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Use constraints

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]"

Other constraints

Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section ( ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Spatial representation type

Grid

Denominator

1000000

Denominator

2500000

Language

English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

GB

ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

Geographic identifier

UK [id=139300]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier

UKM

ISO 3166_2 2009 revision

Begin date

1978

End date

2023-03

Unique resource identifier

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Distribution format

Name	Version
GeoTIFF

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.bgs.ac.uk/opengeoscience/downloads.html	Map data downloads BGS Data – OpenGeoscience Homepage

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.ukso.org	UKSO - UK Soil Observatory Homepage

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.5285/76b69adf-699b-4032-a751-2db0991d55f6	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

The 57,966 topsoil data points of the source data are a combination of data from three main sources, namely the BGS G-BASE rural and urban topsoil data, the GSNI TellusNI rural and urban topsoil data and the RR-BGS XRF, accounting with 76.4%, 13.8 and 9.8% of the source data points respectively. Source data points are unevenly distributed varying from 1 sample per 25 km2 in the RR-BGS XRF to 4 samples per 1 km2 in urban centres sampled by the G-BASE and TellusNI projects. The predicted concentration maps reflect this uneven sampling density with less ‘smooth’ geochemical features in areas of the map where sampling density is higher, given the options made during the ordinary kriging.

Metadata

File identifier

fada8b3f-e509-6298-e053-0937940a8488 XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-05-22

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/13608069