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Natural radionuclide concentrations in soil, water, sediment and biota in England and Wales
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) - view all
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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.

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Contact Emailenquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Contact NameProfessor Nick Beresford
Contact Urihttps://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/bb2d7874-7bf4-44de-aa43-348bd684a2fe_c0
Dcat Typehttp://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Dataset
Guidhttps://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/bb2d7874-7bf4-44de-aa43-348bd684a2fe
Harvest Object Id1ef587e0-3de2-4aa7-85bb-637b1da08e92
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Harvest Source Titleceh-eidc
Identifier1271758286281
Language["eng"]
Provenancen397da48a82c34dd09ae0ca5ff473b4bab4072
Publisher Urihttps://ror.org/04xw4m193
Spatial TextPOLYGON((-6.452 49.864, -6.452 55.812, 1.768 55.812, 1.768 49.864, -6.452 49.864))
Urihttps://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/bb2d7874-7bf4-44de-aa43-348bd684a2fe
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