Identification info

Metadata Language

English (en)

Dataset Reference Date ()

2022-08-08

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607962

Maintenance and update frequency

notEntered

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• X ray fluorescence spectroscopy
• Drill core

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Limitations on Public Access

otherRestrictions

Other constraints

licenceOGL

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Use constraints

otherRestrictions

Other constraints

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Spatial representation type

vector

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Extent

Ellesmere Port [id=1285357]

Dataset Reference Date ()

2002

Begin date

2018-11-19

End date

2018-11-22

 

Distribution Information

Data format

• csv ()

• dat ()

• doc ()

• txt ()

• tiff ()

• dfl ()

 

Quality Scope

dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) measurements and optical images were collected using an Itrax MC core scanner (Cox Analytical Systems) at the Core Scanning Facility (CSF) at the British Geological Survey, Keyworth. Before core scanning, fragments of the split core were aligned with a levelling tool to ensure optimal alignment of the detector. XRF was measured at 1 cm step-size and 30 s integration time. For each core section, an initial surface scan was performed to compute the trajectory of the XRF detector and to acquire a standard resolution optical image (210 µm per pixel). The Itrax MC core scanner automatically produces an XRF sumspectra for each core section, which was peak-fitted using the processing software Q-Spec version 8.6. A single fitting template has been used to fit the whole core succession. In this software, the mean square error (MSE) indicates the goodness-of-fit of the mathematical model compared to the measured energies. MSE values are shown in the fitted result files and can be used to identify region of poor fit. The XRF elemental data is presented as raw counts (peak area). The raw count data provides an indication of variation in elemental abundances along the core, but is not a quantitative analysis. Elemental intensities of <500 counts should be considered with caution as signals for very low counts are primarily dominated by noise.

Metadata

File identifier

e66d904c-6826-37df-e053-0937940a5c7d XML

Metadata Language

English (en)

Resource type

dataset

Metadata Date

2023-05-24

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3