Stratigraphic and diatom data from isolation basins in northwest Scotland

This dataset contains the sediment descriptions and diatom data from a series of isolation basins in northwest Scotland. The data are from different areas in northwest Scotland: Raasay, Fearnmore, Loch Ewe, Reiff, and Inverkirkaig. For each area, sediment gouge and Russian cores were taken at possible isolation basin sites; the collection dates, location information (latitude/longitude) and sediment descriptions are provided for the coring sites in each area. The accompanying diatom counts are provided for cores that underwent diatom analysis. Data derived from NERC Grant NE/X009343/1 part of grant NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: How important are sea-level feedbacks in stabilizing marine-based ice streams? The project focusses on constraining the relative sea-level history of northwest Scotland, around the former Minch Ice Stream, to provide records for testing models of the interplay between ice-sheets, glacio-isostatic adjustment, and relative sea-level changes. Samples were collected 2022- 2025 and diatom analysis undertaken 2022- 2026.

Date (Creation): 2026-01-20

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608608

Originator

University of Gloucestershire - Louise Best

Francis Close Hall, Swindon Road , Cheltenham , GL50 4AZ ,

Originator

University of California - Alexander Simms

Originator

Durham University - Jeremy Lloyd

Originator

University of Stirling - Tom Bradwell

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

Point of contact

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Sediments
Diatoms
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Sea level
Stratigraphy
NGDC Deposited Data
Citable Data
Fossil assemblage

dataCentre

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

SCOTLAND [id=140000]

Date (Creation): 1979

Geographic identifier

SCT

Date (Revision): 2009

Begin date: 2022-12-10

End date: 2026-01-19

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

Microsoft Excel (XLSX) ( Not unknown )
Microsoft Edge PDF Document (.pdf) ()

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British Geological Survey - Enquiries

OnLine resource: Data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

OnLine resource: Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
Best, L., Simms, A., Lloyd, J., Bradwell, T. (2026). Stratigraphic and diatom data from isolation basins in northwest Scotland. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/c408d0a8-39b2-45dc-acd3-e2a501fb0e44

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Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

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: Sediment gouge and Russian cores were taken and described in the field, and representative cores collected for laboratory analysis. Qualitative descriptions and sediment classification notation follows Troels-Smith Classification Scheme (1955). Diatom analysis followed standard laboratory and identification procedures, with a target minimum of 200 valves counted and identified per sample.