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Quaternary microfossils

A small database comprising information on fresh water ostracods, chara and seeds from the Quaternary. The dataset was created in 1969 and covers the whole of Great Britain.

Offshore Quaternary 250k UK

This Offshore Quaternary dataset shows the distribution of interpreted lithostratigraphic units within the shallow subsurface. Large areas of the UK offshore are covered, at a scale of 1:250 000....

Marine Quaternary Map - UK Waters - 1:1M scale

This is a digital version of the paper based 1:1M scale Offshore Quaternary map, North and South sheets. Customers should be aware that, given the age of the paper based maps, the digital version...

Quaternary deposits thickness across the UK Continental Shelf (2014 Version)

The Quaternary deposits thickness dataset is a digital geological map across the bulk of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), for areas up to a water depth of 200m, which shows the thickness of the...

Quaternary deposits summary lithologies across the UK Continental Shelf (2014 Version)

The Quaternary deposits summary lithologies dataset is a digital geological map across the bulk of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), for areas up to a water depth of 200 m, which groups the deposits...

Taxonomic listing of Quaternary, Upper Tertiary and Carboniferous Fossils of UK (North)

This dataset is an taxonomic listing (various phyla and families) of Quaternary, Upper Tertiary and Carboniferous fossils relevant to the palaeontology of Scotland and Northern England. Species...

QUEST Quaternary: Marine isotope and glacial cycle model data (150,000 years ago to present)

Quaternary QUEST was led by Dr Tim Lenton at UEA, with a team of 10 co-investigators at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Reading, Leeds, Bristol, Southampton and at UEA. This dataset...

QUEST Quaternary: Marine isotope and glacial cycle model data (150,000 years ago to present)

Quaternary QUEST was led by Dr Tim Lenton at UEA, with a team of 10 co-investigators at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Reading, Leeds, Bristol, Southampton and at UEA. This dataset...

Late Quaternary palynological data from the eastern Andean montane forest of Ecuador

Palaeoecological proxy data (pollen, non-pollen palynomorph (NPP), micro-charcoal, macro-charcoal, loss-on-ignition (LOI) and x-ray fluorescence (XRF)) recovered from lake sediments, cliff...

Glass geochemical data of Late Quaternary tephra from Main Ethiopian Rift (NERC grant NE/L013533/1)

Glass major element geochemical data on Late Quaternary tephra deposits from the Main Ethiopian Rift volcanoes. These data were acquired using Electron Microprobe Analysis, and secondary standard...

British Geological Survey (BGS) Sampling Survey 1985/10: Quaternary drilling: NW Scotland Continental Slope (01/Jan/1985 to 31/Dec/1985)

This British Geological Survey (BGS) regional marine sampling survey took place in two phase in July & October 1985 on the Continetal Slope north-west of Scotland on board the MV Pholas and MV...

BGS offshore small-scale digital mapping Web service

This Web service provides layers containing offshore digital mapping datasets compiled by the British Geological Survey which have coverage across the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), mostly at scales...

Natural Analogues

Data from projects that investigated the migration, transport and retardation processes of naturally occuring trace elements, as analogues the behaviour in the geosphere environment, of...

Diatom Silica Oxygen Isotope Records from the Late Quaternary Antarctic Margin (NERC lead grant NE/G004811/1, child grant NE/G00413)

Antarctica and its ice sheets have played, and continue to play, a major role in the global ocean-atmosphere system, hence, it is critical that we have a sound understanding of the past behaviour...

Palynological data from Laguna La Yeguada, Panama

This dataset presents a palaeoecological record of stratigraphy, radiocarbon-dated chronology, spores of coprophilous fungi (SCF), pollen and charcoal from lake sediment cores collected from Laguna...

Heavy mineral and bulk petrography data from modern, Quaternary and Cenozoic loess, sand and river sediment samples from northern China (NERC grant NE/I008837/1)

Files contain heavy mineral (HM) and framework petrography data for samples taken from sediments across Northern China, from Tarim in the west to Ordos in central north China. The data come from...

Nearshore data produced for Technical Report Wb/98/45

Digitally held Seabed Sediment, Facies, Bathymetry, Solid and Quaternary offshore geology for certain areas in the UK inshore waters. The storage formats of the data are ESRI and MapInfo but other...

BGS Superficial Deposits Thickness Model 1 km hex grid

This dataset shows the variation of the thickness of superficial (Quaternary age) deposits across Great Britain. The data are presented as a vector map of interlocking hexagon cells (side length 1...

Stable isotope, sedimentological and geochemical data from Holocene lake-sediment core YC2 from Yaal Chac, Mexico (NERC Grant NE/K00610X/1)

Dataset contains an interannual to sub centennial resolution record of carbonate oxygen and carbon isotopes, bulk sediment geochemistry and sedimentology from a 2.95 metre-long core (YC2) from Yaal...

UKCCSRC Call 1 project poster: CO2 storage in Palaeogene and Neogene hydrogeological systems of the North Sea, CSLF Call project poster reception, London, 27.06.16

This poster on the UKCCSRC Call 1 project CO2 storage in Palaeogene and Neogene hydrogeological systems of the North Sea: preparation of an IODP scientific drilling bid was presented at the CSLF...