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

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• Last updated: 16 February 2023
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Summary

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. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/bb2d7874-7bf4-44de-aa43-348bd684a2fe

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2022-05-20T10:41:59
• Access contraints: © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
• Harvest GUID: bb2d7874-7bf4-44de-aa43-348bd684a2fe
• Extent: Latitude: 55.812° to 49.864°
• Extent: Longitude: -6.452° to 1.768°
• Dataset reference date: 2015-11-18 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2010-04-20 (creation)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (author); British Geological Survey (author); University of Salford (author); British Geological Society (author); School of Natural Sciences (author); Natural Environment Research Council (owner); UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (pointOfContact, owner); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian); NERC Environmental Information Data Centre (publisher)
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• Metadata language: eng
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