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Total carbon and nitrogen stocks across a land use gradient on Salisbury Plain in June 2014

Published by:: Environmental Information Data Centre
Last updated:: 24 March 2025

This dataset contains carbon and nitrogen stock data from soils collected from Salisbury Plain, UK. The sites were selected to reflect the four main grassland management types on Salisbury Plain...

Ecosystem function and vegetation data from a land use gradient on Salisbury Plain in June 2014

Published by:: Environmental Information Data Centre
Last updated:: 24 March 2025

This dataset contains ecosystem function and vegetation survey data from soils collected from Salisbury Plain, UK. The sites were selected to reflect the four main grassland management types on...

Mg and Li isotope data on laboratory clay minerals and metadata (NERC grant NE/M001865/1)

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

Clay minerals (smectites) were synthesised experimentally to determine isotope fractionation factors (Li and Mg). The data are provided here. Interpretation is ongoing.

Experimental direct shear friction dataset for synthetic clay gouges (NERC grant NE/L002469/1)

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

Friction coefficient and frictional stability (rate & state parameter) data for triaxially compressed direct shear experiments on kaolinite-rich china clay and Mg-montmorillonite fault gouges...

Elemental and isotopic data for timed exchange experiments between clay, mineral water and seawater

Published by:: Environmental Information Data Centre
Last updated:: 24 March 2025

This dataset presents both isotopic and elemental data for a series of cation exchange experiments between mineral water, montmorillonite clay and seawater. These were a series of in-house...

Experimental friction dataset for heterogeneous and homogeneous mixed quartz-clay fault gouge layers (NERC Grant NE/P002943/1)

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

The data are from a suite of friction experiments performed on simulated fault gouges comprised of clay-quartz mixtures, sheared in a direct-shear arrangement. Some experiments were performed on...

Data from the Sinemurian-Pliensbachian boundary charcoal, clay, c-isotopes and palynofacies, Mochras core, NW Wales, UK

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

This dataset spans the Sinemurian-Pliensbachian boundary of the Llanbedr (Mochras Farm) drill core that was drilled onshore in the Cardigan Bay Basin, Wales, UK. This dataset contains 1. Micro-,...

Ecosystem functions and vegetation data for Winklebury Hill, Salisbury Plain, UK 2016

Published by:: Environmental Information Data Centre
Last updated:: 24 March 2025

This dataset contains vegetation survey data, and nitrate and ammonium concentrations, nitrification and mineralisation rates, microbial biomass and carbon and nitrogen stock data from soils taken...

Clay Mineralogy of Miocene to recent sediments collected at Site U1521 during International Ocean Discovery Programme (IODP) Expedition 374 to the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

This dataset comprises 35 samples analysed for clay mineralogy from IODP Expedition 374 Site U1521 to the Ross Sea, collected on the RV JOIDES Resolution. Shipboard biostratigraphy and...

Ecosystem functions and vegetation data for Winklebury Hill, Salisbury Plain, UK in 2015

Published by:: Environmental Information Data Centre
Last updated:: 24 March 2025

This dataset contains vegetation survey data, and nitrate and ammonium concentrations, nitrification and mineralisation rates, microbial biomass and carbon and nitrogen stock data from soils taken...

Groundwater chemistry, hydrogeological data, geophysical investigations, borehole chippings analysis and local geology for the Afram Plains in Ghana. Investigation of low permeability rocks in sub-Saharan Africa.

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

This data was produced to support a project looking at low permeability rocks in sub-Saharan Africa. Multiple boreholes were drilled for the project with geology identified from chippings....

UKCP09 Climate projections and clay shrink-swell susceptibility

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

Shrink-swell is recognised as the most significant geohazard across Great Britain. This dataset identifies areas of shrink-swell hazard with increased potential due to changing climatic conditions...

UKCP18 Climate projections and clay shrink-swell susceptibility

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

Shrink-swell is recognised as the most significant geohazard across Great Britain. This dataset identifies areas of shrink-swell hazard with increased potential due to changing climatic conditions...

Effect of porosity and clays on geophysical and transport properties of sandstone exposed to CO2 injection: Influence of rock heterogeneities on CO2 storage monitoring (NERC Grants NE/X003248/1, NE/X006271/1)

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

This dataset gathers the data collected during a brine:CO2 flow-through experiments conducted on three sandstones with similar mineralogical compositions (major minerals) but different porosity,...

Palynofacies, microcharcoal, clay mineralogical and carbon isotope mass spectrometry measurements from the Late Pliensbachian (934 – 918 mbs) of the Mochras core, Cardigan Bay Basin, NW Wales, UK (NERC Grant NE/L501669/1)

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

Palynofacies, microcharcoal, clay mineralogical and carbon isotope mass spectrometry measurements from the Late Pliensbachian (934 – 918 mbs) of the Mochras core, Cardigan Bay Basin, NW Wales, UK....

Carbon and nitrogen cycling in chalk, greensand and clay soils over a seasonal cycle in the Hampshire Avon catchment

Published by:: Environmental Information Data Centre
Last updated:: 24 March 2025

Data on the carbon and nitrogen cycling in soils from different geologies within the Hampshire Avon catchment, UK. The dataset also includes functional gene data, anion and cation concentrations,...

Rehydroxilation of Fire-Clay Ceramics: Factors affecting early-stage mass gain in dating experiments (NERC grant NE/I014039/1)

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

Publication associated with NERC grant NE/I014039/1. In this paper, we discuss how the initial stages of mass gain are affected by the specific surface area (SSA) of the ceramic material. The paper...

The effect of clay content on the dilatancy and frictional properties of fault gouge (NERC Grant NE/L002469/1)

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

This information details the method of calculating dilatancy from pore volumometry measurements. In the velocity step tests, an initial shear enhanced compaction phase drastically reduces the...

iHydrogeology shale and aquifer surfaces (vertical separation maps and data)

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

These maps provide an overview, at the national scale, of the spatial relationships between principal aquifers and some of the major shale and clay units in England and Wales. The data comprises a...

Wireline logging and core analysis datasets collected from Swanworth Quarry and Metherhills boreholes during the NERC funded Rapid Global Geological Events (RGGE) project.

Published by:: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Last updated:: 21 April 2025

This dataset contains the collated wireline logs, stratigraphy and core analysis of the three boreholes drill as part of the publicly funded Rapid Global Geological Events Project (RGGE) which ran...

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