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"A geological and heritage assessment of the Outer Thames Estuary as part of an MALSF-MEPF Regional Environmental Characterisation project revealed c.15,000 km2 of palaeo-landscapes hypothesised as dating from 600,000 to 720,000 years ago. These deposits lie immediately offshore from the region that has produced the earliest archaeological evidence for the occupation of the British Isles (c. 600,000 to 700,000 years ago). The exceptional level of preservation of this landscape holds great potential for: understanding our earliest archaeological heritage; understanding the broader geological changes which have occurred during several episodes of sea level change; and providing an enhanced context for a number of aggregate licensing areas and other commercial seabed projects. To resolve the true importance of this landscape this, one year, follow-on project aimed to improve the chronology of this very important submerged landscape. In order to establish the chronology of this area the project aimed to collect 30 (<6 m) long vibrocores from carefully chosen locations distributed across this landscape. These sites were identified from the interpretation of new and legacy seismic data collected during the project and provided by the aggregate industry (Resource Management Association). The retrieved sediments would be logged andappropriate materials selected for analysis by a combination of dating techniques (palaeo-secular variation (PSV), amino acid racemization (AAR), electron spin resonance (ESR), optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and radiocarbon dating."
University of Southampton
Other details | ||
Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 6534 |
Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | The Relic Paleo Landscapes of the Thames Estuary |
File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 25d433b0abc55e71b1bd59fa90404c92 |
Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 22663 |
Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | series |
Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2011-03-08 |
End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2014-07-15 |
Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | "A geological and heritage assessment of the Outer Thames Estuary as part of an MALSF-MEPF Regional Environmental Characterisation project revealed c.15,000 km2 of palaeo-landscapes hypothesised as dating from 600,000 to 720,000 years ago. These deposits lie immediately offshore from the region that has produced the earliest archaeological evidence for the occupation of the British Isles (c. 600,000 to 700,000 years ago). The exceptional level of preservation of this landscape holds great potential for: understanding our earliest archaeological heritage; understanding the broader geological changes which have occurred during several episodes of sea level change; and providing an enhanced context for a number of aggregate licensing areas and other commercial seabed projects. To resolve the true importance of this landscape this, one year, follow-on project aimed to improve the chronology of this very important submerged landscape. In order to establish the chronology of this area the project aimed to collect 30 (<6 m) long vibrocores from carefully chosen locations distributed across this landscape. These sites were identified from the interpretation of new and legacy seismic data collected during the project and provided by the aggregate industry (Resource Management Association). The retrieved sediments would be logged andappropriate materials selected for analysis by a combination of dating techniques (palaeo-secular variation (PSV), amino acid racemization (AAR), electron spin resonance (ESR), optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and radiocarbon dating." |
Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Over the twelve months of the project: fifty-five square kilometres of swath bathymetry data and co-registered backscatter have been acquired; a further thirty square kilometres of swath bathymetry has been provided by the Harwich Harbour Authority; twenty-five line kilometres of boomer data from the main palaeo-river channel in the area has been acquired; and finally several hundred line kilometres of extant boomer data and a total of 133 borehole logs and photo imagery have been provided by the Resource Management Association. These datasets were fully processed and integrated with data acquired during the initial REC project to provide a three phase model of landscape evolution. |
Additional information | This describes relevant references to the data e.g. reports, articles, websites plus other useful information not captured elsewhere. | Presentation type: documentDigital Supply media: cdRom Origin: University of Southampton |
Related keywords | ||
Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | "Agriculture, environment and natural resources" | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | GLOBAL | |
Geographical coverage | ||
North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 54.051007 |
East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -3.491499 |
South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 50.477606 |
West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -0.793632 |
Responsible organisations | ||
Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
Organisation name | University of Southampton | |
Position name | University of Southampton Contractor | |
Delivery point | "University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ" | |
URL | http://www.soton.ac.uk | |
Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
Organisation name | University of Southampton | |
Position name | University of Southampton Contractor | |
Delivery point | "University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ" | |
URL | http://www.soton.ac.uk | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | University of Southampton | |
Position name | University of Southampton Contractor | |
Delivery point | "University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ" | |
URL | http://www.soton.ac.uk | |
Resource locators | ||
Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/1152/summary |
Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
Dataset constraints | ||
20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | ISO restriction code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | copyright |
21 Conditions for access and use – Use limitation | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource. | exclusive right to the publication, production, or sale of the rights to a literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, or to the use of a commercial print or label, granted by law for a specified period of time to an author, composer, artist, distributor |
Available data formats | ||
Data format name | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | |
Version info | ||
Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2011-03-08 |
Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2011-03-08 |
Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2011-04-07 |
Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard |
Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | Version 2.3.5 |
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