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.
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0:
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences:
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Boreholes
Chronostratigraphy
Sedimentary geology
Sedimentation
Core analysis
Wire line logging
NGDC Deposited Data
Jurassic
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-2.1258,
50.6029,
-2.0452,
50.6110
creation: 2001, publication: 2021-06-28
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This data resulted from a multi-disciplinary systematic sampling and laboratory analysis programme from the Swanworth Quarry 1 and Metherhills borehole cores related to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Rapid Global Geological Events (RGGE) special research topic to examine rhythmicity and its possible causes in the Kimmeridge Clay. For more information see: H.S. Morgans-Bell, A.L. Coe, S.P. Hesselbo, H.C. Jenkyns, G.P. Weedon, J.E.A. Marshall, R.V. Tyson, C.J. Williams. 2001. Integrated stratigraphy of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic) based on exposures and boreholes in south Dorset, UK. Geological Magazine, 183(5), 511-539. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756801005738
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2024-04-24