Identification

Title

Nitrogen and Carbon isotope data from 210Pb dated lake sediment cores in the United Kingdom

Abstract

A dataset of historical sediment Carbon and Nitrogen isotope measurements from lake cores (n=95) spanning the range of lake types and catchments found across the UK. These data have been obtained from the Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC) lake sediment core archive with well-resolved time intervals (1850, 1900, 1980 and present) determined by radiometric dating (210Pb; 137Cs). This data has been collated to investigate historical sources and accumulation of C and N in lakes. This dataset provides historical data for hydrological / nutrient modelling from the Long Term Large Scale (LTLS) Project in the NERC Macronutrients programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4b53b1d7-f290-4b47-97e9-9f9ec79f3003

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/4b53b1d7-f290-4b47-97e9-9f9ec79f3003

name: Download the data

description: Download a copy of this data

function: download

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/4b53b1d7-f290-4b47-97e9-9f9ec79f3003.zip

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4b53b1d7-f290-4b47-97e9-9f9ec79f3003

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GeoNames

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2006-01-01

Keyword set

keyword value

lake

sediment

core

210Pb

isotope

catchment

Environmental Change Research Centre

ECRC

nitrogen

carbon

lake sediment core

Lead-210

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.649000000000001

East bounding longitude

1.768

North bounding latitude

60.861

South bounding latitude

49.863

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1850-01-01

End position

2010-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2015-10-19

date type

creation

effective date

2010-12-31

Frequency of update

unknown

Quality and validity

Lineage

The Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC), University College London core archive has been used to compile a UK wide, time slice dataset of lake sediment Nitrogen and Carbon and stable isotope measurements. The sediment archive has grown from lake coring projects undertaken by the department and employees of ENSIS Ltd, the environmental consultancy based within the ECRC. Details of core materials in the archive are maintained by the ECRC-UCL "AMPHORA" database from which core location, collection date, lake name and LOI 550% (organic content) values are were derived for this dataset. Measurements of sediment Carbon and Nitrogen and their stable isotope ratios from the selected time/depth intervals have been added to this data.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

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

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-02-09T11:09:15

Metadata language

eng