Soil chemistry Scotland (version 3)
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2009
0115 936 3276
0115 936 3276
0115 936 3276
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Chromium
- Soil chemistry
- Arsenic
- Cadmium
- Lead
- UK Location (INSPIRE)
- Nickel
- Keywords ()
- Keywords
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- NERC_DDC
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- license
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- 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
- The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section (iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk ) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.
- Spatial representation type
- vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Topic category
-
- Geoscientific information
- Extent
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SCOTLAND [id=140000]
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 1979
- Extent
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SCT
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2009
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- Begin date
- 1968
- End date
- 1993
- Additional information
- This dataset has been replaced by Estimated Ambient Background Soil Chemistry Scotland.
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Shapefiles
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Shapefiles
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- Resource Locator
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Estimated Ambient Background Soil Chemistry
This page provides further information on the dataset that has superseded the 'Soil Chemistry Scotland (version 3)' dataset. Contact information for obtaining the data is also available on the page.
- Resource Locator
-
Estimated Ambient Background Soil Chemistry
This page provides further information on the dataset that has superseded the 'Soil Chemistry Scotland (version 3)' dataset. Contact information for obtaining the data is also available on the page.
- Quality Scope
- dataset
- Other
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2011
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Degree
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
- Degree
- Statement
- The soil chemistry data is based on GBASE (Geochemical Baseline Survey of the Environment) soil geochemical data where these are available. Elsewhere the stream sediment data are converted to surface soil equivalent potentially harmful element (PHE) concentrations using delineations of PM polygons as the soil geochemistry mapping unit and the statistical relationships between soil and stream sediment data to derive the equivalent soil PHE concentration from the stream sediment data. Geometric mean ambient background concentrations (ABCs) for PHEs in mineral soils are mapped within delineations of PM polygons to produce a seamless data set covering the whole of Great Britain, with the exception of the London area where an inadequate number of geochemical samples are available at the moment. PHE concentrations in organic soils (i.e. with more than 15-20% organic carbon) are likely to be significantly lower than those indicated by the soil chemistry data.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 9df8df52-d75c-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-09-06
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3