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BGS offshore activities and samples Web service
This Web service provides layers which show metadata relating to offshore sample collection and other activities undertaken by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and its... -
Evolution of Carbon Cycle Dynamics (eCCD) (NERC grant NE/H022554/1)
The global carbon cycle - how much carbon is stored in its interconnected reservoirs (ocean, atmosphere, plants and soils on land, sediments in the deep sea) as well as the... -
Particle Size Analysis and organic carbon content data from marine sediment...
Particle Size Analysis (PSA) and organic carbon content data from marine sediment sampling of two plots within the Trevose Box off south-west England between 14 - 18 April 2023... -
BGS Seabed Geology 10k: Bristol Channel version 1.0
The Seabed Geology 10k: Bristol Channel is a digital geological map portraying the distribution of the different geological substrate units (either of bedrock or unlithified... -
Marine sediment particle size analysis (PSA) data from around the UK (1966 onwards)
Results of particle size analysis (PSA) performed on approximately 29,000 seabed sediment samples collected by BGS from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) and adjacent deep water... -
Marine seabed sediment geochemical data from around the UK (1975-1990)
The concentrations of up to 30 trace elements in approximately 9,000 sea-bed samples from the UK Continental Shelf were determined by BGS using a variety of analytical... -
Marine geotechnical data from around the UK (1975 onwards)
Results of geotechnical testing carried out, at various depth intervals, on shallow cores or boreholes collected by BGS from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). The bulk of the... -
Marine geological sample data from around the UK (1966 onwards)
The British Geological Survey has collected over 50,000 offshore samples using grabs, dredges and shallow coring devices (to a maximum depth of 6m below the sea bed). The... -
Marine borehole logs, data and materials from around the UK (1969 onwards)
BGS has drilled almost 600 boreholes to prove seismic interpretations of the marine Quaternary geology and bedrock from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). The collection also... -
IODP Expedition 375 Site U1520 Unit IV fault and stylolite frequency and...
Data are either (1) depths and spacings between stylolites and faults within Unit IV, (2) images from IODP drill core image logs of the locations of samples observed, (3)... -
Sediment data from IODP Expedition 363 (NERC grant NE/P016456/1)
Sediment % coarse fraction (>63 microns), and abundance of fish teeth in coarse fraction. 2016 has been a record breaking year in terms of global temperatures. The high... -
Planktonic foraminiferal census counts and counts of Ice Rafted Debris (IRD)...
These data are described fully in the following publication: S. Barker, J. Chen, X. Gong, L. Jonkers, G. Knorr, D. Thornalley, Icebergs not the trigger for North Atlantic cold... -
Modelled depth and thermal history for sediments offshore Sumatra (NERC...
The thermal state of marine sediments controls a range of potential dehydration reactions as sediments are subducted. In thick sediment sections it is possible that reactions... -
Eocene to Oligocene-aged benthic foraminifer isotope and sediment-derived...
This dataset includes the (stable) oxygen and carbon isotopic composition of benthic foraminifer tests (n= 686) and the (radiogenic) isotopic composition of the terrigenous...