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Monthly measurements of major and trace elements in 41 rivers in Great Britain, 2017, from the LOCATE project

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Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

This dataset contains monthly measurements of major and trace elements from 41 rivers around Great Britain. The samples were collected as part of the Land Ocean Carbon TransfEr (LOCATE) project during 2017 and they were analysed using Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). LOCATE was a multi-disciplinary NERC project that undertook coordinated sampling of the major rivers in Great Britain to establish how much carbon from soils is getting into rivers and estuaries and to determine what is happening to it. It involved the National Oceanography Centre, the British Geological Survey, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, with assistance from the University of Lancaster, University of Durham, University of Hull, the University of the Highlands and Islands and the Environment Agency. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ef880531-08b3-477d-a69e-3b28beb562d2

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
ef880531-08b3-477d-a69e-3b28beb562d2
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2024-02-21
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Tye, A.M., Balfour, C., Bowes, M.J., Brown, I., Evans, C., Farr, G., Felgate, S., Hargreaves, G., Humphry, O.S., Kitidis, V., Lapworth, D.J., Martin, A., Mayor, D.J., Pearson, M., Nightingale, P., Pickard, A., Sanders, R., Spears, B., Stephens, J., Stinchcombe, M., Torres, R., Williamson, J.L., Woodward, M., Bowes, M., Breimann, S., Burden, A., Callaghan, N., Dise, N., Gilbert, P., Gibb, S., Ives, S., Jürgens, M., Hughes, L., Lichtschlag, A., Mack, S., Mallin Martin, D., Mawji, E., Olszewska, J., Parkes, D., Pearce, C., Peel, K., Pugh, J., Rees, A., Worrall, F., Yarrow, D. (2024). Monthly measurements of major and trace elements in 41 rivers in Great Britain, 2017, from the LOCATE project. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ef880531-08b3-477d-a69e-3b28beb562d2
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(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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