376ecc98-aa29-62bd-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 2026-04-30 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606941 Late Glacial Sea Level Minima in the Western British Isles (NERC Grant NE/H024069/1) 2016-07-22 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606941 Due to differential loading of ice on Britain and Ireland the glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) response and therefore sea-level record will vary with distance from the centre of the British Irish Ice Sheet. GIA models are tested against geological observations, however there is a paucity of observations below -10m depth and the lateglacial period when the BIIS retreated leading to a rapid response of both sea-level and GIA. The aim of the project was to use geophysical data, ground truthed by core material, to find evidence of lateglacial sea-level minima in the Irish and Celtic Sea to refine these GIA models. Cruise log and digital copies of the core information (location, water depth, core length) taken onboard the research cruise CE12008 on the RV Celtic Explorer. A GeoReseource 6m vibrocorer was used to collect sediment samples. Cores where taken at multiple sites and from southern and eastern Ireland: Bantry Bay, Dunmanus Bay, Waterford,Offshore County Louth and Dundalk Bay, offshore Isle of Man; offshore Wales: Cardingan Bay; and offshore Northern Ireland: Kilkeel and Dundrum Bay, Belfast Lough. 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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]" English geoscientificInformation British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision CELTIC SEA [id=2001353] British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision IRISH SEA [id=2001430] -10.2500 -4.2000 51.4000 55.1000 2011-03-01 2014-07-31 NERC grant split award, lead grant NE/H024301/1, associated grant NE/H024069/1 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2015.08.021 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) information https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item75409 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Data download https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item59889 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Data download 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 Cores were collected in 2012 on the RV Celtic Explorer, cruise number CE12008. Core were collected using a GeoResources 6m barrel, 11 cm diameter virbrocorer. Each core was split, visually logged, photographed and sampled for radiocarbon dating. We used monospecific foraminifera and paired mollusc for dating. The radiocarbon dates were process and analysed at NERC radiocarbon facility in East Kilbride. Foraminifera assemblage counts were sample from selected cores. The samples were volumetrically measured, sieved through 500µm and 63µm sieves with the 500-63µm fraction used for the foraminifera analysis. The samples were picked wet.