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UKGEOS Glasgow Soil Chemistry 03_18 dataset

The UK Geoenergy Observatories (UKGEOS) Glasgow facility, baseline soil geochemistry dataset released from the BGS comprises an excel file with two spreadsheets. The first spreadsheet contains information on the chemical composition of 90 topsoil (0 - 20 cm) samples collected from seven initially proposed borehole sites for the UKGEOS Glasgow facility, and from two control sites, in February-March 2018 (03-18). Ten samples were collected from each site prior to installation of the UKGEOS Glasgow facility, and underwent laboratory analysis. Chemical data for pH and the total concentrations of 54 inorganic and 75 organic substances in the soil samples are presented. In addition, the dataset contains locational and descriptive information about the samples noted during sampling. The analyte name, element chemical symbols, analytical method, units of measurement and limits of quantification are recorded in header rows at the top of the spreadsheet. The dataset includes qualifiers, highlighting any quality control issues reported with the data. The data qualifiers are explained in the second spreadsheet released with the data. Further details about the dataset can be found in the accompanying report http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527798/.

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Date (Publication)
2020-06-12
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607627
Author
  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
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
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Top soil
  • Monitoring
  • Soil chemistry
  • Base line data
  • Environmental science
  • Organic geochemistry
  • Pollution
  • Inorganic geochemistry
  • Scottish SDI
  • Chemical analysis
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
  • Abrasion
dataCentre
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
  • Scottish SDI
  • UKGEOS
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
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licenceOGL
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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]"
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
Glasgow [id=1298677]

Date (Revision)
2002

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Begin date
2018-02-27
End date
2018-03-15

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0.0000
Maximum value
199.0000

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No information provided.
Supplemental Information
For more information on the project, visit www.ukgeos.ac.uk.
Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
Distribution format
  • MSExcel ()

  • pdf ()

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
OnLine resource
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item135686
OnLine resource
http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527798/
OnLine resource
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dataset Dataset
Other
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
Each soil sample comprised a composite collected by hand-auger from the corners and centre of a 1 x 1 m square. Samples were freeze-dried, sieved to 2 mm and analysed to determine soil pH (by CaCl2 slurry method), the CrVI content (by speciated isotope dilution mass spectrometry), the carbon content (by carbon analyser), the total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) content (by Iatroscan) and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) content (by gas chromatography mass spectrometry) at the BGS laboratories. The total concentrations of 54 inorganic chemical parameters were determined by x-ray fluorescence spectrometry by Panalytical Ltd. A sub-set of 10 soil samples was screened for the presence of asbestos prior to sample preparation and analysis by hand picking and polarising light microscopy at i2 Analytical Ltd. In addition, the BGS recorded observations about the soil samples during sample collection. Laboratory data underwent quality assurance prior to reporting. Where possible, analytical methods were UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) accredited. The BGS undertook further quality control checking and data conditioning to create the combined laboratory and field observation dataset for release. More information is available in the accompanying metadata report http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527798/.
File identifier
a7d17b75-c3f3-2f5a-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-07
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607627
 
 

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