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UKGEOS Glasgow groundwater and surface water chemistry dataset release (2024 - 2025)

Publisher
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
13 August 2026
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Summary

This dataset contains surface water and groundwater chemistry data of 79 samples – 24 surface waters, 50 groundwater, and 5 groundwater duplicates – collected at the UK Geoenergy Observatory (UKGEOS) in Glasgow, between 27 May 2024 and 28 November 2025 by the British Geological Survey (BGS), as part of the monitoring programme at the Glasgow research facility (https://www.ukgeos.ac.uk/glasgow-observatory). Samples are from 6 surface water sites, 5 mine water boreholes, and 5 environmental monitoring boreholes and were analysed at BGS and other laboratories. It includes the following parameters: field measurements of redox potential (ORP), pH, dissolved oxygen, electrical conductivity, alkalinity and water temperature, as well as chemical analyses of major, minor, and trace elements, non-purgeable organic carbon (NPOC), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH), oxygen and deuterium isotopes (δ2H and δ18O), carbon isotopes in dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) (δ13CDIC), and – limited to the groundwater samples – ammonium (NH4), reduced iron, dissolved sulphide, dissolved gases radon, methane, ethane and carbon dioxide (Rn, CH4, C2H6, CO2) and volatile organic compounds (VOC). The dataset consists of two excel files: GroundWaterChemData4 and SurfaceWaterChemData5, with an accompanying report by Bearcock et al. (2025).

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
12 August 2026
Harvest GUID
5872abeb-1a07-9c7a-e063-3050940a1fdd
Extent (Latitude)
55.8436° to 55.8356°
Extent (Longitude)
-4.2229° to -4.1802°
Dataset reference date (creation)
2026-08-05
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
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 party
British Geological Survey (distributor, originator, pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng