Data Publication

UKGEOS Glasgow groundwater and surface water chemistry dataset release (2024–2025)

Walker-Verkuil, Kyle | Bearcock, Jenny | Brickell, Jack | Holliday, Laura

NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre

(2026)

Descriptions

This dataset contains surface water and groundwater chemistry data of 79 samples – 24 surface waters, 50 groundwater, and 5 groundwater duplicates – collected at the UK Geoenergy Observatory (UKGEOS) in Glasgow, between 27 May 2024 and 28 November 2025 by the British Geological Survey (BGS), as part of the monitoring programme at the Glasgow research facility (https://www.ukgeos.ac.uk/glasgow-observatory). Samples are from 6 surface water sites, 5 mine water boreholes, and 5 environmental monitoring boreholes and were analysed at BGS and other laboratories. It includes the following parameters: field measurements of redox potential (ORP), pH, dissolved oxygen, electrical conductivity, alkalinity and water temperature, as well as chemical analyses of major, minor, and trace elements, non-purgeable organic carbon (NPOC), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH), oxygen and deuterium isotopes (δ2H and δ18O), carbon isotopes in dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) (δ13CDIC), and – limited to the groundwater samples – ammonium (NH4), reduced iron, dissolved sulphide, dissolved gases radon, methane, ethane and carbon dioxide (Rn, CH4, C2H6, CO2) and volatile organic compounds (VOC). The dataset consists of two excel files: GroundWaterChemData4 and SurfaceWaterChemData5, with an accompanying report by Bearcock et al. (2025).

Keywords

MSL enriched keywords
Equipment
Environmental monitoring
minerals
chemical elements
carbon
iron
Measured property
electrical properties
electrical conductivity
analysis
microchemical analysis
trace elements
whole rock analysis
trace elements
measured property
ammonium
carbon (C)
inorganic carbon
dissolved inorganic carbon
organic carbon
carbon dioxide
methane
iron
oxygen
pH
Facility names
UK Geos
MSL vocabulary keywords corresponding to originally assigned keywords
Environmental monitoring
Originally assigned keywords
environmental monitoring
geochemistry
chemical analysis
surface water
groundwater
mine water
water chemistry

Metadata


MSL enriched sub domains

field-scale laboratories
rock and melt physics
geochemistry

Source


Source publisher

NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre

DOI


Creators

Walker-Verkuil, Kyle
Personal
British Geological Survey
Bearcock, Jenny
Personal
British Geological Survey
Brickell, Jack
Personal
British Geological Survey
Holliday, Laura
Personal
British Geological Survey

Citation

Walker-Verkuil, K., Bearcock, J., Brickell, J., & Holliday, L. (2026). UKGEOS Glasgow groundwater and surface water chemistry dataset release (2024–2025) [Dataset]. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/66C3799F-FB64-4E6A-96CB-D37280EF6AE8


Dates

Available 2026-08-07

Language

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Locations


Geo location(s)

Glasgow, UK


Spatial coordinates