• NERC Data Catalogue Service
  •  
  •  
  •  

Inorganic and tracer data for groundwaters collected in Nigeria and Mali in 2010 as part of a project to look at residence times of shallow groundwater in West Africa and to assess the implications for hydrogeology and resilience to climate change.

The data includes field chemistry, major and minor ions (ICP-MS and IC), nutrients (DOC), and tracers (Tritium, CFCs, SF6, δ18O, δ2H, δ13CDIC) collected in Nigeria and Mali in 2010. There is a brief description of the source, depth and completion date of the borehole, type of pump, estimated village population and estimated rainfall. Work funded by UK Department for International Development.

Simple

Date (Creation)
2019-10-24
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607545
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford , WALLINGFORD , OXON , OX10 8BB , United Kingdom
01491 838800
01491 692345
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford , WALLINGFORD , OXON , OX10 8BB , United Kingdom
01491 838800
01491 692345
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford , WALLINGFORD , OXON , OX10 8BB , United Kingdom
01491 838800
01491 692345
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford , WALLINGFORD , OXON , OX10 8BB , United Kingdom
01491 838800
01491 692345
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
  • Groundwater
  • Water supply
dataCentre
  • data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
Keywords
  • 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.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions 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]"
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2010-04-01
End date
2012-03-31

Reference System Information

No information provided.
Distribution format
  • MS Word ()

  • MS Excel ()

Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford , WALLINGFORD , OXON , OX10 8BB , United Kingdom
01491 838800
01491 692345
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford , WALLINGFORD , OXON , OX10 8BB , United Kingdom
01491 838800
01491 692345
OnLine resource
Data
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Other
non geographic 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
The purpose of this work is to help develop the understanding of the hydrogeological processes and assess the resilience of these important resources to short-term inter-annual variability in the contrasting climates found in West Africa today. This study represents a first step towards quantifying the mean residence times (MRT) of groundwater pumped from unstressed shallow rural groundwater supplies in West Africa, by comparing residence times across regions with contrasting rainfall, while controlling for other important factors such as geology, unsaturated zone thickness, rates of abstraction, borehole construction and surface-water.
File identifier
9645ea18-3fa3-4f03-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name
non geographic dataset
Date stamp
2025-06-10
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford , Wallingford , Oxfordshire , OX10 8BB ,
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607545
 
 

Overviews

overview

Spatial extent

Keywords


Provided by

logo

Share on social sites

Access to the portal
Read here the full details and access to the data.

Associated resources

Not available


  •  
  •  
  •