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Alkenone and foraminiferal carbon isotope data from Site 999 (NERC grant NE/H006273/1)

Temperature reconstructions indicate that the Pliocene was ~3 degrees C warmer globally than today, and several recent reconstructions of Pliocene atmospheric CO2 indicate that it was above...

G-BASE panned stream sediment samples

The BGS Geochemical Baseline Survey of the Environment (G-BASE) was the national strategic geochemical mapping programme in Great Britain. The project set out to establish the chemistry of the...

Noise Mapping Scotland - Round 4 - Candidate Noise Management Areas

Digital boundaries of Candidate Noise Management Areas were created as part of the Round 4 strategic noise mapping analysis commissioned by Scottish Ministers to meet the requirements of the...

Habitat point records from 1987 OPRU HRE Dart Estuary survey

The Dart Estuary is situated on the south coast of Devon and opens into Start Bay. The estuary itself runs through a steep sided channel from Totnes, some 18 km to the north, to Dartmouth and...

Species point records from 1987 OPRU HRE Dart Estuary survey

The Dart Estuary is situated on the south coast of Devon and opens into Start Bay. The estuary itself runs through a steep sided channel from Totnes, some 18 km to the north, to Dartmouth and...

Mississippian Bowland Shale dataset: from Hind Clough, Marl Hill 4 (MHD4) and Cominco S9 (Craven Basin, UK). Iron Speciation, total organic carbon and selected major and trace element geochemical data (NERC grant NE/L002493/1)

This dataset was acquired as part of a NERC-funded Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) PhD Studentship at the University of Leicester and British Geological Survey between 2014-2018 [grant no....

2006 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA7 Technical Report - Maritime (NE Atlantic west of Scotland)

This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA7) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). The report...

2005 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA6 Technical Report - Contaminants. A review of the contaminant status of the Irish Sea

This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA6) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). This report considers...

Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) 2017 - Combined (Final Designations)

PLEASE NOTE: This dataset has been retired, as it has been superseded by the dataset for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) 2021 Designations. See:...

Soil, site and tree characteristics for acute oak decline (AOD) symptomatic and non-symptomatic oak in three UK woodlands, southern England, 2016

This dataset contains information on tree, site and soil properties from three oak woodland sites in southern England: Writtle Forest, Monks Wood, and Stratfield Brake. Data were collected in 2016...

CO2 efflux and hydraulic data for two Scottish and four Amazonian streams 2011-13

The dataset contains CO2 efflux, hydraulic and water chemistry data from six field sites which vary in location, size and catchment characteristics. Measurements were made at: i) two sites in the...

Images and laser ablation ICPMS data for Fe-Ni-Cu sulfides from Cabo Ortegal, northern Spain (NERC Grant NE/P017312/1)

Samples are dunites, harzburgites and pyroxenites with variable proportions of chromite from the Cabo Ortegal collection of the late Prof Hazel Prichard, that is held at Cardiff University. Data...

QICS Paper: Numerical study of the fate of CO2 purposefully injected into the sediment and seeping from seafloor in Ardmucknish Bay

To quantify the impact of leaked CO2 purposefully stored in subsea geological formations on the marine ecosystem, CO2 gas was injected into sandy sediments in a small bay in Scotland in 2012....

Groundwater geochemical data from two sites in Cambodia, southeast of Phnom Penh, 2019 - 2020

These are groundwater geochemical data taken from two sites in the Kien Svay district of northern Kandal Province, Cambodia, southeast of Phnom Penh. These sites are referred to as “clay-dominated”...

Major and trace element analysis of Precambrian and Paleozoic lacustrine mudrocks

This dataset contains geochemical measurements which quantify the major and trace element concentrations of Precambrian (Proterozoic) and Paleozoic (541–251 Mya) mudstones. Sampled mudstones are...

UKGEOS Glasgow Surface Water Chemistry Dataset1 – release (2019-2020)

The UK Geoenergy Observatories (UKGEOS) Glasgow baseline surface water chemistry dataset1 released from the BGS comprises an excel file with two spreadsheets. The first spreadsheet contains...

Organic pollutants in urban soils of Glasgow, UK

Concentrations of total organic carbon (TOC), total petroleum hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were determined in 84 near-surface soils...

EPSRC Project: Process Intensification for Post-combustion Carbon Capture using Rotating Packed Bed through Systems Engineering Techniques

The emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has caused huge concerns around the world, in particular because it is widely believed that the increase in its concentration in the atmosphere is...

Population Density Dataset for the Jazira Region of Syria

This population dataset complements 13 other datasets as part of a study that compared ancient settlement patterns with modern environmental conditions in the Jazira region of Syria. This study...

Species point records from 1985 NCC Loch Sween sublittoral survey

Loch Sween, in the Sound of Jura, south-west Scotland, has been selected as a proposed Marine Nature Reserve by the NCC. A considerable body of information exists on the sublittoral habitats of the...