Marine Samples and Cores
This is the collection of cores and samples held by BGS for the sea areas around the UK. It includes material collected by BGS during its mapping projects and material donated to BGS by other organisations. The main core and sample types are grab samples (sea-bed), gravity cores, vibrocores and rock-drill cores (up to 6m in length), and borehole cores (up to 274m in length). The sea-bed grab samples are Holocene sediments present at the sea-bed and are stored in plastic jars. Where possible, sub-sample material has been retained after analysis. The bulk of the cores consist of Holocene and Pleistocene material. The rest are of bedrock ranging in age from Neogene to Pre-Cambrian. A lot of the core was collected in plastic liner tubing and the unlithified cores have been split vertically. The bulk of the material was collected in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and early 1990's with ongoing additions of new sample and cores each year. The distribution is very variable, but, in general, there are grab samples and/or shallow cores spaced about every 5 - 10km across the entire UK Continental Shelf. In some localised areas the sampling density is much higher. The samples and cores are applicable to a wide range of uses including environmental, geotechnical and geological studies.
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http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13603048
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The bulk of the sample and core material are held at the BGS Keyworth Core Store and is available for inspection, sub-sampling and measurement.
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2008-06-01
Site investigations
Marine geology
Marine geochemistry
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2011
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2005-09-05
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BGS samples and cores are archived in the core store after examination and analysis. Non-BGS material may be archived directly without any examination or analysis by BGS. The volume and timing of adding new material is very variable. There is no requirement for organisations to donate material to BGS. When material is offered to the archive, BGS assesses if the material enhances the spatial/geological coverage of the already archived material before agreeing to accept it.
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Material - grab samples, gravity cores, vibrocores, rock drill cores(up to 6m long) and borehole cores(up to 240m long)
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British Geological Survey
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EDINBURGH
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United Kingdom
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British Geological Survey
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
EDINBURGH
EH14 4AP
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
pointOfContact
British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
NOTTINGHAM
NG12 5GG
United Kingdom
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0115 936 3276
distributor
British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
NOTTINGHAM
NG12 5GG
United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
custodian
British Geological Survey
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
EDINBURGH
EH14 4AP
United Kingdom
+44 131 667 1000
pointOfContact
2021-10-19