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Turner, S.D., Rose, N.L. (2015). Nitrogen and Carbon isotope data from 210Pb dated lake sediment cores in the United Kingdom. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/4b53b1d7-f290-4b47-97e9-9f9ec79f3003
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Nitrogen and Carbon isotope data from 210Pb dated lake sediment cores in the United Kingdom
A dataset of historical sediment Carbon and Nitrogen isotope measurements from lake cores (n=95) spanning the range of lake types and catchments found across the UK. These data have been obtained from the Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC) lake sediment core archive with well-resolved time intervals (1850, 1900, 1980 and present) determined by radiometric dating (210Pb; 137Cs). This data has been collated to investigate historical sources and accumulation of C and N in lakes. This dataset provides historical data for hydrological / nutrient modelling from the Long Term Large Scale (LTLS) Project in the NERC Macronutrients programme.
Publication date: 2015-10-19
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Format
Comma-separated values (CSV)
Spatial information
- Study area
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- Spatial representation type
- Tabular (text)
- Spatial reference system
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Temporal information
- Temporal extent
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1850-01-01 to 2010-12-31
Provenance & quality
The Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC), University College London core archive has been used to compile a UK wide, time slice dataset of lake sediment Nitrogen and Carbon and stable isotope measurements. The sediment archive has grown from lake coring projects undertaken by the department and employees of ENSIS Ltd, the environmental consultancy based within the ECRC. Details of core materials in the archive are maintained by the ECRC-UCL "AMPHORA" database from which core location, collection date, lake name and LOI 550% (organic content) values are were derived for this dataset. Measurements of sediment Carbon and Nitrogen and their stable isotope ratios from the selected time/depth intervals have been added to this data.
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Citations
McGowan, S., Anderson, N. J., Edwards, M. E., Langdon, P. G., Jones, V. J., Turner, S., … Wiik, E. (2015). Long-term perspectives on terrestrial and aquatic carbon cycling from palaeolimnology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 3(2), 211–234. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1130
Supplemental information
Correspondence/contact details
Dr. Simon Turner
University College London
Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC), Pearson Building, Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
UK
simon.turner@ucl.ac.uk
London
WC1E 6BT
UK
Authors
Turner, S.D.
Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC), University College London
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8692-8210
Rose, N.L.
Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC), University College London
Other contacts
- Custodian
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
- Publisher
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NERC Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk