Bowland Shale Geochemistry Data with Photographs and Analysis Scripts

A UK case study of the Bowland Shale formation. The dataset accompanies a 2016 manuscript and includes photographs, mineralogical and geochemical analyses for 18-20 subsamples, and RStudio scripts for statistical analysis. It was produced by the British Geological Survey under NERC grant NE/L002493/1.

Use Cases

• Analyze weathering effects on rock composition based on inorganic geochemical analysis results
• Assess hydrocarbon source rock potential based on organic geochemical analyses like Rock-Eval pyrolysis
• Conduct statistical analyses of geochemical relationships using the provided RStudio scripts
• Visually correlate geochemical data with rock textures based on the collection of outcrop and thin section photographs

Strengths

• Includes multiple data types: photographs, tabular analytical results, and analysis scripts
• Analytical results cover 18 subsamples for mineralogy and inorganic chemistry, and 20 for organic geochemistry
• Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed manuscript submitted to Chemical Geology

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

British Geological Survey (BGS)

Collection Method

Data collected from outcrop and drill cores, with analyses including XRD, XRF, LECO, and Rock-Eval pyrolysis.

Time Range

Manuscript submitted in December 2016.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04 09 08:33:24.588488; freshness should be verified

Geography

Bowland Shale formation, United Kingdom.