AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
British Geological Survey (BGS) Sampling Survey 1974/19: Beach/Tidal zone: Orkney and Shetland Islands (07/Sep/1974 to 09/Nov/1974)

This British Geological Survey (BGS) marine sampling survey took place in 1974 along the coastline of the Orkney and Shetland Islands. The purpose was to collect beach samples as part of an offshore regional geological mapping programme. Beach samples were collected by hand. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in BGS Internal Report ?????.

Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
British Geological Survey (BGS) Sampling Survey 1971/12: Beach/Tidal zone: Moray Firth (01/Jan/1971 to 01/Jan/1971)

This British Geological Survey (BGS) marine sampling survey took place in 1971 along the Moray Firth coastline. The purpose was to collect beach samples as part of an offshore regional geological mapping programme. Beach samples were collected by hand. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in BGS Internal Report ?????.

Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
British Geological Survey (BGS) Sampling Survey 1969/11: Gravel assessment: Clyde (08/Apr/1969 to 24/Jun/1969)

This British Geological Survey (BGS) marine sampling survey took place in 1969 in the River Clyde on board the RV Strathclyde. The purpose was to investigate the gravel distribution in the area. Seabed samples were collected using a shipek grab and sediment dredge, sediment cores were collected using a gravity corer. Beach samples were also collected. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in IGS Internal Report 73/9.

Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Mineral resource polygons Northern Ireland (internal geological boundaries retained)

This mineral resource data was produced as part of the Mineral Resource Map of Northern Ireland via a commission from the Northern Ireland Department of the Environment. The work resulted in a series of 21 data layers which were used to generate a series of six digitally generated maps. This work was completed in 2012 with one map for each of the six counties (including county boroughs) of Northern Ireland at a scale of 1:100 000. This data and the accompanying maps are intended to assist strategic decision making in respect of mineral extraction and the protection of important mineral resources against sterilisation. They bring together a wide range of information, much of which is scattered and not always available in a convenient form. The data has been produced by the collation and interpretation of mineral resource data principally held by the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland and was funded via a commission from the Northern Ireland Department of the Environment. These layers display the spatial data of the mineral resources of Northern Ireland. There are a series of layers which consist of: Bedrock: Clay, Bauxitic clay, Coal & Lignite, Coal – lignite proven, Conglomerate, Dolomite, Igneous and meta-igneous rock, Limestone, a 100m buffer layer on the Ulster White Limestone, Meta-sedimentary rocks, Perlite, Salt, Sandstone and Silica Sand. Superficial (unconsolidated recent sediments) : Sand & gravel and Peat. The data except for the salt and proven lignite resource layers was derived from the 1:50 00 and 1:250 000 scale DigMap NI dataset. This version of the data retains the internal geological boundaries which are dissolved out in the accompanying dissolved version. A user guide 'The Mineral Resources of Northern Ireland digital dataset (version 1)' OR/12/039 describing the creation and use of the data is available.

Tags: Mineral economics, Mineral resources, Minerals, NERC_DDC, Planning
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Mineral resource polygons Northern Ireland (internal geological boundaries dissolved)

This mineral resource data was produced as part of the Mineral Resource Map of Northern Ireland via a commission from the Northern Ireland Department of the Environment. The work resulted in a series of 21 data layers which were used to generate a series of six digitally generated maps. This work was completed in 2012 with one map for each of the six counties (including county boroughs) of Northern Ireland at a scale of 1:100 000. This data and the accompanying maps are intended to assist strategic decision making in respect of mineral extraction and the protection of important mineral resources against sterilisation. They bring together a wide range of information, much of which is scattered and not always available in a convenient form. The data has been produced by the collation and interpretation of mineral resource data principally held by the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland and was funded via a commission from the Northern Ireland Department of the Environment. These layers display the spatial data of the mineral resources of Northern Ireland. There are a series of layers which consist of: Bedrock: Clay, Coal & Lignite, Coal – lignite proven, Conglomerate, Dolomite, Igneous and meta-igneous rock, Limestone, a 100m buffer layer on the Ulster White Limestone, Meta-sedimentary rocks, Perlite, Salt, sandstone and Silica Sand. Superficial (unconsolidated recent sediments) : Sand & gravel and Peat. The data except for the salt and proven lignite resource layers was derived from the 1:50 00 and 1:250 000 scale DigMap NI dataset. A user guide 'The Mineral Resources of Northern Ireland digital dataset (version 1)' OR/12/039 describing the creation and use of the data is available. A companion set of data with the internal boundaries retained is also available.

Tags: Mineral economics, Mineral resources, Minerals, NERC_DDC, Planning
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Hidden crisis project: studies of community water management in Malawi and Uganda 2017-2018 (NERC Grant NE/M008606/1)

In developing countries, the dominant model for managing rural water supplies is a community-level association or committee. Although a relative paucity of evidence exists to support this model, it continues to exert a strong pull on policy makers. This project examines everyday water governance arrangements, situating these in the exigencies of wider village life and over the course of changing seasons. The data highlights the social embeddedness of water governance, and challenges the dominant 'associational model' of community based management. In none of the 12 sites do we observe a fully formed committee functioning as it should according to policy. Instead, water management arrangements are typically comprised by one or a small number of key individuals from the community, who may or may not be part of a waterpoint committee.

Tags: NERC_DDC, Seasonal variation, Social sciences, Water resources, Water supply
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Hidden crisis project: in-depth qualitative social science survey of community water management arrangements in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda 2017-2018 (NERC grant NE/M008606/1)

In developing countries, the dominant model for managing rural water supplies is a community-level association or committee. Although a relative paucity of evidence exists to support this model, it continues to exert a strong pull on policy makers. The Hidden Crisis Survey 2 dataset is the major dataset developed by the project. A social science and physical science survey were conducted in tandem, examining the physical waterpoint and the arrangement the community had devised for managing it. The detailed physical and social science datasets developed by the survey were intended to be used to: better understand the multi-faceted factors which underlie water source failure, their everyday governance arrangements, and to explore the inter-relations between the water point governance arrangements, engineering choice and performance, and groundwater resource conditions. The social science survey moved beyond the more standard preoccupation with examining waterpoint committees (a focus on form) to instead examine context-specific water management arrangements (based on the functions needed for sustainable and equitable management). The survey produced a detailed social science dataset of the arrangements communities have devised for managing their waterpoint across 150 sites in Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda, surveyed in 2017 and the early part of 2018 (fieldwork was staggered across the three project countries to time with their dry seasons). The findings challenge many of the normative assumptions in the literature about community based management of water and help to move the debate on to more productive areas of enquiry.

Tags: NERC_DDC, Social sciences, Water resources, Water supply
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
British Geological Survey (BGS) Sampling Survey 1970/13: Beach/Tidal zone: East and West coast of Scotland (12/Jan/1970 to 09/May/1970)

This British Geological Survey (BGS) marine sampling survey took place in 1970 along the east coast from Firth of Forth to Aberdeen and west coast River Clyde. The purpose was to collect beach samples as part of an offshore regional geological mapping programme. Beach/seabed samples were collected by hand. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in BGS Internal Report ?????.

Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
British Geological Survey (BGS) Sampling Survey 1971/SV: Geochemistry: Southern North Sea (14/Oct/1971 to 14/Oct/1971)

This British Geological Survey (BGS) marine sampling survey took place in 1971 in the North Sea on board the MV Surveyor. The purpose was to investigate the geochemistry of the superficial sediments. Seabed samples were collected using a shipek grab. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in BGS Internal Report ?????. See geochemistry report WI/AC/85/1.

Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
British Geological Survey (BGS) Sampling Survey 1983/1: Rotary drill trials: Southern North Sea (07/Mar/1983 to 24/Mar/1983)

This British Geological Survey (BGS) marine sampling survey took place in March 1983 in the Southern North Sea on board the MV Whitethorn. The purpose was to carry out trials of the remotely operated IGS 5-metre rotary drill. Seabed samples were collected using a shipek grab, sediment cores were collected using a virbrocorer and rock cores using a rock gravity corer and rockdrill. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in BGS Internal Report 83/6.

Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
British Geological Survey (BGS) Geophysical and Sampling Survey 1976/JM/14: Regional Mapping Programme: Irish Sea and St. George's Channel (29/Sep/1976 to 23/Oct/1976)

This British Geological Survey (BGS) marine geophysical and sampling survey took place in September/October 1976 in the Irish Sea and St. George's Channel on board the RRS John Murray. The purpose was to gather data which could be used to map the regional geology of the area. Cruise was virtually aborted by bad wather. Sediment cores were collected using a rock gravity corer. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in BGS Internal Report ??????????????.

Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
British Geological Survey (BGS) Sampling Survey 1968/8: Sedimentology investigations: Humber Estuary (01/Oct/1968 to 26/Oct/1968)

This marine sampling survey undertaken for research by University of Sheffield and the Institute of Geological Sciences (BGS) took place in October 1968 in the approaches to the Humber Estuary and River Humber on board the MV Moray Firth IV. Surveys associated with this research 1968/2 and 1968/7. The purpose was to collect sedimentological and geological structure data for use in a tidal model. Sediment samples were collected using a shipek grab and vibrocorer. These data archived by BGS. Details of the survey are contained in BGS Technical report WB/MC/69/3.

Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
British Geological Survey (BGS) Sampling Survey 1969/12: Beach/Tidal zone: Firth of Forth (12/Nov/1969 to 28/Nov/1969)

This British Geological Survey (BGS) marine sampling survey took place in 1969 in the Firth of Forth using a zodiac inflatable boat or by accessing beaches on foot. The purpose was to collect beach samples as part of an offshore regional geological mapping programme. Beach/seabed samples were collected by hand. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in BGS Internal Report ?????.

Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
British Geological Survey (BGS) Sampling Survey 1968/7: Sedimentology investigations: Humber Estuary (18/Apr/1968 to 31/Jul/1968)

This marine sampling survey undertaken for research by University of Sheffield and the Institute of Geological Sciences (BGS) on behalf of 1 took place in April to July 1968 in the Humber Estuary on board the tug Wyke. Surveys associated with this reserach 1968/2 and 1968/8. Additonal samples were collected from the Spurn Bight tidal flats either by inflatable boat or on foot.The purpose was to collect sedimentological and geological structure data for use in a tidal model. Sediment samples were collected using a Shipek grab and a gravity corer. These data archived by BGS. Details of the survey are contained in BGS Technical report WB/MC/69/3.

Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Volcanological data for the Echo Canyon Eruption, Ascension Island, South Atlantic: size, abundance, density, vesicle texture and composition of pumice and lava clasts, collected between 2018 and 2020 (NERC Grant NE/L002582/1)

Compositional and volcanological data from a small-volume explosive-effusive volcanic eruption on Ascension Island, South Atlantic. Multiple samples of pumice and lava spanning the whole eruption sequence were collected from several locations in the area surrounding NE-Bay on Ascension Island. This dataset includes compositional, clast size, abundance, clast density and vesicle texture data for the products of the Echo Canyon eruption. Data was collected between the 12th June 2018 and the 30th August 2020 on Ascension Island and at the University of East Anglia, UK. Compositional data was collected using X-ray fluorescence (XRF), density of pumice clasts using the Archimedes suspension method and textural data by visual inspection of sample vesicle shape and size, all at the University of East Anglia, UK. Clast size and abundance was semi-quantitatively estimated in the field on Ascension Island and later checked against photographs. This data provides a framework through which changes to eruption style were reconstructed and is useful to any persons wishing to study or compare small-volume eruption deposits which record eruptive transitions. The data supports and forms the basis of Davies et al., (2021) (DOI : 10.1007/s00445-021-01480-1) and forms part of B V Davies’ Natural Environment Research Council funded PhD project investigating eruption controls on Ascension Island. Bridie V Davies collected and interpreted the data with assistance from Jane H Scarrow and Richard J Brown on Ascension Island, and Jenni Barclay at the University of East Anglia, Bertrand Leze performed XRF on prepared samples. All data collected is included in this resource.

Tags: NERC_DDC, Pumice, Trachyte, Volcanic eruption
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Geochemical Data for the Olla and Nebo-Hemphill Oil Fields, Louisiana (NERC grant NE/L002612/1)

Formation water geochemistry and gas geochemistry from 6 wells in the Olla Oil Field and 7 wells in the Nebo-Hemphill Oil Field Louisiana (Longitude range: -92.2297 to -92.1487, Latitude range: 31.83128 to 31.56586.), sampled in 2015. Formation water geochemistry for cation and anions and in mmol/l and ppm, these were measured at an internal ExxonMobil facility. Casing gases were used to make the remaining measurements. Stable noble gas isotopes (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe) were measured at the University of Oxford Noble Lab for ratios and abundances (in cm3(STP)/cm3). Stable C isotopes of CO2 and CH4 and C2, C3 and C4 alkanes in ‰ VDPB as well as their mol% of the casing gas were measured by Isotech Inc.. Methane clumped isotopes are given as Δ12CH2D2 and Δ13CH3D and were measured at the California Institute of Technology. Where no data is present, no measurements were taken for that well. N.D. refers to not detectable.

Tags: Geochemistry, NERC_DDC, Reservoir fluids
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
UKGEOS Glasgow GGC01 Final Borehole Information Pack

The borehole information pack from borehole GGC01, site 10 of the UK Geoenergy Observatories (UKGEOS) Glasgow facility. This final data release pack from BGS contains geophysical (MSCL-S), Near Infrared (NIR) and X-ray Fluorescence (XRF; mineralogical and chemical) core scan and core-wireline depth integration data, in addition to sedimentology, discontinuity and engineering logs, core scan optical and X-ray images, composite and digital wireline logs, drillers' summary logs and prognosis, sample recovery information spreadsheets and daily drillers' borehole records that were contained within the now-superseded intermediate data release. The cored, seismic monitoring borehole was drilled between 19 November and 12 December 2018 to 199m producing a core of 102 mm diameter. The borehole was wireline logged in December 2018 and a string of 5 seismometers were installed in February 2019. A range of fluid, water and core samples were taken during the drilling process. The borehole information pack- final release contains a range of logs on the core as well as images and scans of that core, these data were acquired in the first half of 2019 and late 2020/early 2021. The final data release for GGC01 includes: 1. UKGEOSGlasgow_GGC01_Final.zip file that includes the majority of the various data files, including files from the intermediate and initial data packs. 2. UKGEOSGlasgowGGC01_slabbedhighresimages.zip that contains the slabbed core optical images, 51GB in size. 3. Intermediate Borehole Information Pack - Part Two, high resolution whole core optical and radiographic images https://doi.org/10.5285/0b49f25b-a5d6-401c-98ff-397ad9ee9ed1 71GB in size, already released. Further details and model limitations can be found in the accompanying report http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530762

Tags: Drill core, Drillers logs, Geophysical logs, NERC_DDC, Seismic monitoring, X ray fluorescence spectroscopy
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Microbial enrichment experiments (unsuccessful) from core samples SSK111460 and SSK111461 from UKGEOS Glasgow Observatory, borehole GGC01

Loan IDA number - IDA271576. No data was obtained for microbial cultivation experiments with core samples SSK111460 and SSK111461 from UKGEOS Glasgow Observatory, borehole GGC01. Samples and data are derived from the UK Geoenergy Observatories Programme funded by the UKRI Natural Environment Research Council and delivered by the British Geological Survey. Attached document described methodology of enriching sandstone core (SSK111461) in different media types and shale core (SSK111460) in synthetic groundwater. No microbial growth was seen after 7 months.

Tags: Geomicrobiology, Groundwater, Microbiological processes, NERC_DDC, Sandstone, Shale, Sulphate reduction
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
IODP Expedition 362 Sumatra Seismogenesis, Co-Chief activities and deformation structures of the subducting oceanic plate, fault and stratigraphic data from seismic reflection data interpretation (NERC Grant NE/P012817/1)

Interpretations of fault positions, geometries and displacements, and seismic stratigraphic horizons. These are provided in the form of Seismic fault and horizon data as ‘Charisma fault sticks’ and ‘Charisma 2D interpretation lines’ ASCII files, respectively, exported from Petrel 2019. Additional CSV and XLSX files containing the compiled coordinate data are included. A readme file is also included explaining the contents of the different files and folders. Interpretations are from seismic profiles of the input oceanic plate section to the North Sumatra subduction zone. Results are published in: Stevens, D.E., McNeill, L.C., Henstock, T.J., Delescluse, M., Chamot-Rooke, N., Bull, J.M., 2020, Intraplate deformation offshore North Sumatra: New Insights from integration of IODP Expedition 362 results with seismic data. EPSL, 538, 116218.

Tags: Fault geometry, Faults, NERC_DDC, Seismic data, Subduction zones
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
A century of groundwater accumulation in Pakistan and northwest India - dataset (NERC Grant NE/R000069/1)

The groundwater systems of northwest India and central Pakistan are amongst the most heavily exploited in the world. Groundwater has been monitored in the region for more than a century resulting in a unique long-term record of groundwater level change. The BGS has compiled groundwater level data from northwest India (Haryana and Punjab) and Pakistan (Punjab) between 1884 and 2020. The dataset, presented here, was compiled from various sources between 2018 and 2020. The excel file consists of two tabs both containing groundwater level data (in metres below ground level) and location information. In the first tab (Full_dataset), which contains the full dataset, there are 68783 rows of observed groundwater level data from 4028 individual sites. In the second tab (LTS) there are 7547 rows of groundwater level observations from 130 individual sites, which have water level data available for a period of more than 40 years and from which at least two thirds of the annual observations are available.

Tags: Agriculture, Groundwater, NERC_DDC, Water resources
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Hematite and goethite oxygen isotope data from the Spence and Cerro Colorado porphyry copper deposits, Central Andes

This spreadsheet contains 21 oxygen isotope measurements for hematite and mixed hematite/goethite samples from the supergene profiles of the Spence and Cerro Colorado porphyry copper deposits in the Central Andes. Columns are also included which contain calculated isotopic values for weathering fluids which were present at the time of iron oxide formation. These data are presented and discussed in the G-cubed paper 'A rusty record of weathering and groundwater movement in the hyperarid Central Andes' (Shaw et al., 2021). Weathering fluid isotopic values are calculated using the published fractionation factors of Clayton & Epstein (1961), Yapp (1990) and Bao & Koch (1999). The authors have the most confidence in the fluid values obtained using the fractionation factor of Yapp (1990), for reasons outlined in the publication.

Tags: Goethite, Hematite, Iron oxides, NERC_DDC, Oxygen isotopes, Porphyry copper deposits, Weathering
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2012, Total E&P UK Ltd, Geophysical Site Survey Elgin SE UKCS Block 22/30c & 22/30b, Site Survey, DECC Reference Number 2770

An oil and gas industry jack-up rig, semi-sub rig site survey acquired under licence P188 in April 2012. The block numbers traversed were 22/30c, 22/30b.

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

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 between 1995-1998. The aim of the RGGE project was to identify the effects of climatic changes on modern sediments. The project focused on the Kimmeridge Clay due to its unbroken sequence of fossiliferous marine mudstones. These mudstones have compositional variations in organic content, minerology, fauna and clay content which reflect changes in both the climate and sea level. Over the course of the project the entire sequence of the Kimmeridge Clay was cored across three boreholes, two at Swanworth Quarry and one at Metherhills.

Tags: Boreholes, Chronostratigraphy, Core analysis, Jurassic, NERC_DDC, Sedimentary geology, Sedimentation, Wire line logging
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)