This dataset is an taxonomic listing (various phyla and families) of Quaternary, Upper Tertiary and Carboniferous fossils relevant to the palaeontology of Scotland and Northern England. Species authors and some dates are given. The MS Access database MTD_TAXALIST presently contains 1169 records. It has provision for environmental interpretation, and publications in which the fossils are illustrated.

This dataset contains the collated wireline logs, stratigraphy and core analysis of the three boreholes drill as part of the publicly funded Rapid Global Geological Events Project (RGGE) which ran between 1995-1998. The aim of the RGGE project was to identify the effects of climatic changes on modern sediments. The project focused on the Kimmeridge Clay due to its unbroken sequence of fossiliferous marine mudstones. These mudstones have compositional variations in organic content, minerology, fauna and clay content which reflect changes in both the climate and sea level. Over the course of the project the entire sequence of the Kimmeridge Clay was cored across three boreholes, two at Swanworth Quarry and one at Metherhills.