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Data Publication

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.

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

(2015)

Descriptions

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 and stream waters data were derived from total K, U and Th concentrations mainly from the ongoing geochemical survey of the United Kingdom (G-BASE), conducted by the British Geological Survey. The geochemical survey data are currently incomplete for England and Wales, but almost complete coverage was obtained for K in stream sediments by using the Wolfson Atlas data for southern England. For U and Th in sediments and K, U and Th in soils, more complete coverage was achieved by geological extrapolation (using relationships between soils/sediments and bedrock/superficial geology). For media and sediments, datasets are provided for both: (i) geometric mean concentrations from measured samples on a 5 x 5 km square basis where data are available; and (ii) extrapolated surfaces covering all of England and Wales. Data for non-human biota are from targeted sampling and analyses and data review.
Please download supporting information for full materials and methods. Alternatively refer to the following journal papers: For soil, water and sediment data: Background exposure rates of terrestrial wildlife in England and Wales N.A. Beresford, C.L. Barnett, D.G. Jones, M.D. Wood, J.D. Appleton, N. Breward, D. Copplestone. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 99 (2008) 1430-1439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2008.03.003 For biota data: Assessment of naturally occurring radionuclides around England and Wales: Application of the G-BASE dataset to estimate doses to non-human species Jones, D. G., Appleton, J. D., Breward, N., Mackenzie, A. C., Scheib, C., Beresford, N. A., … Copplestone, D. (2009). Assessment of naturally occurring radionuclides around England and Wales: Application of the G-BASE dataset to estimate doses to non-human species. Radioprotection, 44(5), 629–634. https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/20095116

Keywords


Originally assigned keywords
England
Wales
Radioecology
Soil
Pollution
water
thorium
potassium-40
radioecology
soil
sediment
biota
uranium

Corresponding MSL vocabulary keywords
thorium
uranium

MSL enriched keywords
measured property
thorium
uranium

MSL enriched sub domains i

geochemistry

Source

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/bb2d7874-7bf4-44de-aa43-348bd684a2fe

Source publisher

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre


DOI

10.5285/bb2d7874-7bf4-44de-aa43-348bd684a2fe


Creators

Beresford, N.A.

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-0238

Barnett, C.L.

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Other:

Jones, D.G.

British Geological Survey

Other:

Wood, M.D.

University of Salford

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4511-4445

Appleton, J.D.

British Geological Society

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1468-9545

Breward, N.

British Geological Society

Other:

Copplestone, D.

School of Natural Sciences

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Contributors

Beresford, N.A.

ContactPerson

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-0238

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

RightsHolder

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

HostingInstitution

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre


References

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/bb2d7874-7bf4-44de-aa43-348bd684a2fe.zip


Citation

Beresford, N. A., Barnett, C. L., Jones, D. G., Wood, M. D., Appleton, J. D., Breward, N., & Copplestone, D. (2015). Natural radionuclide concentrations in soil, water, sediment and biota in England and Wales. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/BB2D7874-7BF4-44DE-AA43-348BD684A2FE


Dates

Submitted:

2015-11-18

Created:

2010-04-20


Language

en


Rights

This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence


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