Identification

Title

Wyre and Ribble river chemistry in support of Equipt4risk NERC project (NERC Grant NE/R017832/1 )

Abstract

This data is the analysis of the river water of the paper: Wilson et al. (20 "Compartmentalisation and groundwater–surface water interactions in a prospective shale gas basin: Assessment using variance analysis and multivariate statistics on water quality data" Hydrological Processes 34:3271–3294 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.13795) The data is from two sampling campaigns sampling the rivers of the Wyre and Ribble catchments in north west England. The river water samples were collected to test whether groundwater compartmentalisation observed in the underlying aquifers impacted the surface water quality. The compartmentalisation of the aquifer is important because this has been shown to control the vulnerability of water resources to pollution from facking fluids injected at depths of 1000's m.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item165027

name: Data

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607745

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Groundwater

Water quality

Surface waters

Hydraulic fracturing

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2011

Keyword set

keyword value

NERC_DDC

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.0201

East bounding longitude

-2.3893

North bounding latitude

54.0262

South bounding latitude

53.7231

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1979

code identifying the extent

LANCASHIRE [id=154200]

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2018-07-01

End position

2018-09-30

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2021-04-26

Frequency of update

notApplicable

Quality and validity

Lineage

The field campaign was based upon a factorial design to cover both the different rivers, geology and a fault known to compartmentalise the underlying aquifer. Samples were collected upon two field campaigns in July and September 2018. In total , across the two campaigns, 239 separate locations were sampled, some locations were sampled in both campaigns to ensure comparability. All samples were analysed using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES). Of the 239 sample locations, 170 were not tidally influenced and were distributed as: Mercia Mudstone Group (40 samples); Sherwood Sandstone Group(69 samples); Millstone Grit (29 samples); Lower Coal Measures (2 samples); and the Bowland High and Craven Groups (30 samples). Ions measured were: calcium(Ca), iron (Fe), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg), manganese (Mn),sodium (Na) and sulphur (S).

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2011

degree

false

explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Data format

name of format

MS Excel

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

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.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Professor of Environmental Chemistry

organisation name

University of Durham

full postal address

Dept of Earth Sciences

Durham

DH1 3LE

email address

not available

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

contact position

Professor of Environmental Chemistry

organisation name

University of Durham

full postal address

Dept of Earth Sciences

Durham

DH1 3LE

email address

not available

responsible party role

principalInvestigator

Responsible party

organisation name

British Geological Survey

email address

not available

responsible party role

distributor

Responsible party

organisation name

British Geological Survey

email address

not available

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth

NOTTINGHAM

NG12 5GG

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 115 936 3100

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-05-24

Metadata language