6658d988-591d-01b9-e054-002128a47908
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dataset
British Geological Survey
+44 115 936 3100
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth
NOTTINGHAM
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
NG12 5GG
United Kingdom
enquiries@bgs.ac.uk
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2022-09-20
UK GEMINI
2.3
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607273
Biometric data illustrating species-specific growth response of coccolithophores to Palaeocene-Eocene environmental change (NERC Grant NE/H017291/1)
2018-02-08
creation
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607273
These data were produced within the objectives of the NERC grant (alongside collaborator Gibbs at NOC, Southampton) and predominantly comprise biometric data collected under light microscope at x1500 magnification from the coccolithophore taxon Coccolithus pelagicus, a heavily calcified taxon with a long fossil record. The data was collected as part of a collaborative research effort bringing together the modern and fossil consortia within the UK Ocean Acidification research programme. The data are from batch culture experiments on both modern sub-species of C. pelagicus and provide cell size, coccosphere size, coccolith size and number of coccoliths per cell. The same parameters were measured from C. pelagicus from North Atlantic field and sediment trap samples from inside and outside bloom conditions. Again, the same parameters were also measured from C. pelagicus from exceptionally well-preserved fossil material from several shelf and off-shelf marine locations including New Jersey, Tanzania, California and the Bay of Biscay.
Professor Paul Bown
University College London
Earth Sciences
Kathleen Lonsdale
London
WC1E 6BT
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Mineral Resources
GEMET - INSPIRE themes
2008-06-01
publication
Acidification
Palaeoecology
Eocene
Climate change
Microfossils
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
2011
revision
NERC_DDC
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no limitations
The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.
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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.
There are no restrictions on the use that may be made of the dataset, although an appropriate copyright acknowledgement must be made when any part of the dataset is reproduced. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely available without any use constraints - inclusion of any third party data / information will affect the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.
English
geoscientificInformation
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas
2010
revision
BAY OF BISCAY [id=2001371]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus
1979
creation
CALIFORNIA [id=796300]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus
1979
creation
NEW JERSEY [id=774500]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus
1979
creation
TANZANIA [id=685000]
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2010-06-15
2012-06-01
MS Excel
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item107270
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Mineral Resources
2011
publication
See the referenced specification
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
2010-12-08
publication
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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Using light microscopy (LM) we imaged and measured 1173 fossil coccospheres from across the PETM interval. Coccosphere images were collected from Bass River onshore Ocean Drilling Program core, New Jersey, Lodo Gulch, central California, Kilwa, Tanzania Drilling Project Site 14, and Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Site 401 in the Bay of Biscay. Biometric measurements were made on images taken under crossed polarised light at x1600 magnification, with a colour digital camera (Olympus DP71), using CellD software supported by Olympus. Three biometric parameters of the coccospheres (fossil and modern) were measured: 1. the number of coccoliths comprising each coccosphere (CN), 2. external coccosphere diameter including coccoliths (Ø), and, 3. coccolith size, which was measured from the tube cycle and converted to coccolith length (CL).