In-situ rock deformation and micron-scale crack network evolution: a high-resolution time-resolved x-ray micro-tomography dataset

Cartwright-Taylor, Alexis | Main, Ian | Butler, Ian | Fusseis, Florian | Flynn, Michael | King, Andrew

2020

This collection comprises two time-series of 3D in-situ synchrotron x-ray microtomography (μCT) volumes showing two Ailsa Craig micro-granite samples (ACfresh02 and ACHT01) undergoing triaxial deformation. These data were collected in-situ at the PSICHE beamline at the SOLEIL synchrotron,...

Data for Synthetic Shelf Sediment Maps for the Greenland Sea and Barents Sea

Laverick, Jack H.

2022

This dataset represents the sediment properties and physical environment of the seabed for the Greenland Sea and Barents Sea shelf area. The data were produced at a spatial resolution of 0.01 by 0.01 degrees. Available variables include: whole sediment mean grain size, mud, sand and gravel...

Metaschoepite dissolution in sediment column systems – groundwater/soil geochemistry and uranium X-ray spectroscopy data

Bower, W. | Morris, K. | Livens, F.R. | Mosselmans, J.F.W. | Fallon, C.M. | Fuller, A.J. | Natrajan, L.S. | Boothman, C. | Lloyd, J.R. | Utsunomia, S. | Grolimund, D. | Ferreira Sanchez, D. | Jilbert, T. | Parker, J.E. | Neill, T. | Law, G.

2019

This dataset contains the results of a laboratory study investigating the dissolution of UO3•nH2O particles in dynamic sediment/groundwater column systems, representative of the shallow subsurface at the Sellafield Ltd. site, UK. Measurements were carried out to determine the extent of...

Microplastics in sediments of the River Thames Basin, UK

Horton, A.A. | Svendsen, C. | Williams, R. | Spurgeon, D. | Lahive, E.

2017

This dataset provides numbers and types of plastic particles extracted from sediment samples of three tributaries of the river Thames: the River Leach, the River Lambourn and The Cut. These rivers are regularly monitored for a range of water quality and biological characteristics as part of the...

Geochemistry and grain size of terrestrial sediments collected across a stream network, Swineshaw Moor, UK, 2018

Warburton, J.

2023

This dataset contains details of sediment geochemistry, loss-on-ignition and sediment median particle size for terrestrial sediment samples collected across the stream network of Harehill and Swineshaw Moors, Stalybridge, Tameside, Manchester. Samples were collected on three occasions in 2018...

210Pb-dated historical lake sediment metal concentrations from The Lake District, England (mid-19th century to 2016)

Turner, S.D. | Yang, H. | Rose, N.L. | Shilland, J. | Bennion, H. | Jones, V. | Sayer, C. | Baker, A. | Roberts, C. | Bishop, I.

2022

Measurements of sediment properties (incl. organic and carbonate content), radionuclides (210Pb, 137Cs, 241Am) and elements (including mercury, nickel, copper, zinc, and lead) in lake sediment successions. Radionuclide dating provides a reliable chronology of sediment ages from the mid-19th...

Filter pack and cascade impactor samples of gas and aerosol particulate matter on the Island of Hawai'i (2018, 2019)

Ilyinskaya, Evgenia | Mason, Emily | Wieser, Penny | Liu, Emma | Whitty, Rachel

2021

This dataset reports chemical speciation of airborne gas and aerosol particulate matter (PM) sampled in various locations on the Island of Hawai'i in 2018 and 2019. The 2018 samples were collected during a large eruption of Kilauea volcano. The 2019 samples were collected during a period of...

Lipid biomarker palaeothermometry and carbon isotope data for eleven lignites spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary in North America

Jerrett, Rhodri | O’Connor, Lauren | Lengger, Sabine | Dearing Crampton-Flood, Emily | Price, Gregory | van Dongen, Bart | Davies, Marc

2024

The dataset consists of eleven spreadsheet tabs, each tab containing lipid biomarker palaeothermometry (air temperature reconstructions) and bulk organic carbon isotope data from individual lignites that are known to stratigraphically span the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) boundary....

Natural radionuclide concentrations in soil, water, sediment and biota in England and Wales

Beresford, N.A. | Barnett, C.L. | Jones, D.G. | Wood, M.D. | Appleton, J.D. | Breward, N. | Copplestone, D.

2015

Data comprise estimates of activity concentrations of naturally occurring radionuclides (40K, 238U and 232Th series radionuclides) in environmental media (soil and stream sediments and waters) and non-human biota (focusing on the ICRP Reference Animals and Plants). For soil, stream sediments...

High precision zircon U-Pb data for plutonic rocks from the Masirah and Ra's Madrakah ophiolites, South East Oman

Jansen, Max | MacLeod, Christopher | Lissenberg, Johan | Parkinson, Ian | Condon, Daniel

2024

Zircon U-Pb isotope data are presented for eight plutonic rocks from the Masirah ophiolite and one plutonic rock from the Ra's Madrakah ophiolite (South East Oman). These data constrain the age of formation of the two ophiolite nappes exposed on Masirah Island (early Cretaceous), whereas two...