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Dual stable isotope analysis of nitrogen and oxygen in nitrate in groundwater from Northern Province Chalk in Yorkshire, UK (NERC Grant NE/L002574/1)

Dual stable isotope analysis comprising nitrogen-15 and oxygen-18 ratios for groundwater samples collected every 2-3 months over one hydrogeological year from the East Riding of Yorkshire. Isotopic ratios for nitrogen-15, oxygen-18 are both presented as raw and processed to NAIR and VSMOW, respectively. The data are in the form of a Microsoft Excel workbook containing Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer runs. The data were collected to understand key sources of nitrate contamination in Chalk groundwater and the dominant processes they undergo, and the extent of any attenuation. The Chalk catchments and the River Terrace Gravel catchment were compared, allowing conclusions to be drawn on the role of nitrate transformation, and the dominant location of transformations, to increase understanding of nitrate dynamics in agricultural systems. Groundwater samples were collected by the University of Leeds, the Environment Agency, Yorkshire Water and South East Water. Nitrate isolation and data interpretation carried out by Josephine McSherry, supervised by L. Jared West and Simon Bottrell. Mass spectrometry was carried out by Rob Newton and Bob Jamieson at the University of Leeds. No isotopic data are absent from the dataset, however oxygen contamination (resulting from the isolation method and since resolved) severely affected run O34b-O. Hydrochemical data relevant to the groundwater samples are not included as they are the property of the Environment Agency, Yorkshire Water or South East Water.

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Date (Creation)
2022-01-20
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607888
Principal investigator
  University of Leeds - Dr Sebastian Rost ( School of Earth and Environment )
Leeds , LS2 9JT ,
Originator
  University of Leeds - Josephine McSherry
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable notApplicable
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Chalk
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • Nitrogen isotopes
  • Stable isotopes
  • Nitrates
  • Groundwater
  • Oxygen isotopes
dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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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]"
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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.
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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
2015-11-01
End date
2019-08-31

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  • MS Excel ()

Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
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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
Nitrate was isolated from groundwater samples using the acetone dissolution method developed by Huber et al. 2011. The samples were subjected to pyrolysis at 1450 °C in an Elementar Pyrocube and transferred to an Isoprime continuous flow isotope ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS). The runs include international standards IAEA-NO3 and USGS-34 in addition to several internal laboratory barium nitrate check standards. Carbon-13 ratios are also included as their consistency was monitored.
File identifier
d679c3b1-ee43-04ff-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name
non geographic dataset
Date stamp
2025-07-28
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607888
 
 

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