Downcore Foraminifera Data (NERC grant NE/J023329/1)
This dataset comprises a record of benthic foraminifera count data from three cores that were analysed to assess down core changes in foraminifera abundance from the Paluma Shoals reef complex, Halifax Bay, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia; cores OPS-PC2, OPS-C-PC1 and OPS-D-PC1. The site/core names relate to the sites described in the following paper: Morgan KM, Perry CT, Smithers SG, Daniell JJ and Johnson JA (2016) Extensive reef development within the “mesophotic” nearshore Great Barrier Reef: Evidence for intra-regional variations in coral resilience. Scientific Reports 6:29616. DOI: 10.1038/srep29616.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2019-07-15
Point of contact
University of Exeter
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Professor Chris Perry
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Geography Department
)
Amory Building, Rennes Drive
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Exeter
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EX4 4RJ
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Principal investigator
University of Exeter
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Professor Chris Perry
(
Geography Department
)
Amory Building, Rennes Drive
,
Exeter
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EX4 4RJ
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Barrier reefs
- Coral reefs
- Foraminifera
- NGDC Deposited Data
- dataCentre
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- NERC_DDC
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Other constraints
- The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.
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- 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]"
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- EnglishEnglish
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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QUEENSLAND [id=580000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
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- Begin date
- 2013-07-01
- End date
- 2014-07-31
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- dataset Dataset
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- dataset
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
- Samples for foraminiferal analysis were wet sieved to remove the < 63 ?m sediment fractions . After sieving, samples were oven dried (60 °C for 24 hours) before further sieving to remove any gravel (i.e., > 4 mm) and residual mud. A 1 cm3 split was obtained from the retained sediment fractions (i.e., between 63 ?m and 4 mm) from each sample using a riffle splitter. Foraminiferal assemblages were characterised for each sample split by counting and identifying a total of 300 tests, creating a multivariate dataset containing 66 samples and over 19,000 individual specimens. For full details see: Johnson JA, Perry CT, Smithers SG, Morgan KM, Woodroffe SA. (2019) Reef shallowing is a critical control on benthic foraminiferal assemblage composition on nearshore turbid coral reefs. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109240
- File identifier
- 8e06c994-7328-4241-e054-002128a47908 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-01-13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth
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NOTTINGHAM
,
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
,
NG12 5GG
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United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607488
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