59da8e86-04cc-4f46-a23c-65513d025326
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Chimney Meadow (Church Field) soil water retention measurements (pF curves)
2011-09-27
publication
2009-03-22
creation
1317996491250
CEH:EIDC:
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/59da8e86-04cc-4f46-a23c-65513d025326
10.5285/59da8e86-04cc-4f46-a23c-65513d025326
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Blyth, K. (2011). Chimney Meadow (Church Field) soil water retention measurements (pF curves). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/59da8e86-04cc-4f46-a23c-65513d025326
Soil moisture and Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) measurements within the top metre of soil at Church Field, Chimney Meadow National Nature Reserve. Church Field lies on a clay lens which overlies surrounding sand and gravel soils. Apart from the A and B horizons, the clay was found to be fairly homogenous down to the maximum depth of 1.1m of the access pit. On the 1:250,000 Soil Map of South East England the location falls into the soils category 832 Kelmscott Association which comprise mostly permeable fine loamy soils over limestone gravel and variably affected by groundwater and with some risk of flooding. However, on the more detailed 1:25,000 scale Sand and Gravel Resources Map of the Thames Valley the clay lens is depicted as Oxford Clay substrate without sand and gravel cover, surrounded by sand and gravel terraces cropping out at the surface. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/59da8e86-04cc-4f46-a23c-65513d025326
Stratford, C.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Blyth, K.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Similar measurements are planned for the other main soil categories within Chimney Meadows.
Soil
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
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This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Blyth, K. (2011). Chimney Meadow (Church Field) soil water retention measurements (pF curves). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/59da8e86-04cc-4f46-a23c-65513d025326
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
2010-12-08
Data collected in the field by CEH. Samples were collected from a soil pit dug 13.75m from the north end of the ERT transect and offset 1.0m to the west of the transect line. Fixed volume soil samples were collected in stainless steel rings of dimension 100mm deep x 99mm I.D. at sample depth in increments of 10cm up to 1.0m. At each depth, two samples were collected. The samples were stood in a water bath until they reached an equilibrium (saturated) weight. The samples were then placed in (1) a sand bath (2) a sand/kaolin bath (3) pressure vessels set at a range of suctions in order to progressively dry out the samples. Water-release curves were constructed for each soil level.