Lipid biomarker palaeothermometry and carbon isotope data for eleven lignites spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary in North America

The dataset consists of eleven spreadsheet tabs, each tab containing lipid biomarker palaeothermometry (air temperature reconstructions) and bulk organic carbon isotope data from individual lignites that are known to stratigraphically span the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) boundary. Uncalibrated, raw biomarker distributions (glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers; GDGTs) are provided, as well as the calculated calibration outputs. Site coordinates are: West Bijou, Colorado (39°34'14'N, 104°18'09'W), Sussex, Wyoming (43°39'40"N, 106°19'06"W), Pyramid Butte, North Dakota (46°25'03'N, 103°58'33'W), Hell Creek Road, Montana (47°31'35"N, 106°56'23"W), Rock Creek West, Saskatchewan (49°02'20"N, 106°34'00"W), Wood Mountain Creek, Saskatchewan (49°25'20"N, 106°19'50"W), Frenchman Valley, Saskatchewan (49°20’56"N, 108°25’05"W), Knudesn’s Coulee, Alberta (51°54’27"N, 113°02’57"W) Griffith’s Farm, Alberta (51°54’47"N, 112°57’51"W), Coal Valley Cores (GSC CV-42-2, Cores 1 and 2), Alberta (53°05’02"N, 116°47’ 40"W) Police Island, Northwest Territories (64°52'42"N, 125°12'33"W).

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Dataset Reference Date ()
2024-01-13
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608174
  University of Manchester - Rhodri Jerrett
1.66 Williamson Building, Oxford Road , Manchester , M13 9PL ,
  University of Manchester - Lauren O’Connor
  University of Plymouth - Sabine Lengger
  University of Manchester - Emily Dearing Crampton-Flood
  University of Plymouth - Gregory Price
  University of Manchester - Bart van Dongen
  University of Plymouth - Marc Davies
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Lignite
  • Palaeogene
  • Biomarkers
  • Carbon cycle
  • Cretaceous
  • Paleocene
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • Climate change
  • Coal
  • Organic geochemistry
  • Stratigraphy
  • Carbon isotopes
  • Temperature
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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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  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2011-07-01
End date
2023-12-31
 

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2011
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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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Methods for the production of this data are reported in O’Connor et al. (2023). Data for all sites (except Wood Mountain Creek) were generated using the same method as for Rock Creek West (O’Connor et al., 2023). The method for the production of data at Wood Mountain Creek are also outlined in O’Connor et al. (2023). Reference: O’Connor et al., 2023, Geology, 51, 486 (10.1130/G50588.1).

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Metadata Date
2024-09-09
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UK GEMINI
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2.3
  British Geological Survey
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