BOSCORF | British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility

Welcome to the British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility

Providing a unique and strategic service to the UK scientific community

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Data archiving, visualisation and access

State of the art ITRAX micro-XRF core scanning, MSCL, XYZ, CIS and S core scanners

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Training and development

Offering support for postgraduate and post-doc researchers in all aspects of core analysis

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Sediment core sampling

Making existing sediment cores available for use by the scientific community

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Optimum core storage and preservation

Long term care of whole and split sediment cores at 5°C

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About BOSCORF

The British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility is Britain's national core repository, offering researchers access to the most comprehensive suite of state-of-the-art core logging facilities in the United Kingdom.

Current repository holdings

Please use the interactive map to locate sediment cores you are interested in, and contact boscorf@noc.ac.uk for information on sample and data availability

Sample and Analysis Request

Updated sample, data and analysis request procedures have been in place from January 2019. Please use the updated sample request form, and the separate analysis request form for all future works. Guidance notes are available on the link.

Latest News

Sediment Core Example

Sediment cores available for new ownership

Access to BOSCORF services and data holdings.

MSCL-S BOSCORF operating procedure

BOSCORF shares MSCL-S logging procedures and best practise guidance

Allan Audsley (University of Stirling) visits BOSCORF.

BOSCORF sediment cores used to validate CSEM model of gas hydrates in a Nordic Seas pockmark.

Transport and fate of microplastics in estuaries

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Weddell Sea Expedition analysis at BOSCORF

Latest Publications

Sediment structure and physicochemical changes following tidal inundation at a large open coast managed realignment site

Year of Publication 2019

Millennial and centennial variations in zircon U-Pb ages in the quaternary indus submarine canyon

Year of Publication 2019

Autoxidation of the sea ice biomarker proxy IPSO25 in the near-surface oxic layers of Arctic and Antarctic sediments

Year of Publication 2019

Tracing marine cryptotephras in the North Atlantic during the last glacial period: Protocols for identification, characterisation and evaluating depositional controls

Year of Publication 2018

Neoglacial climate anomalies and the Harappan metamorphosis

Year of Publication 2018

Increased Fluid Flow Activity in Shallow Sediments at the 3 km Long Hugin Fracture in the Central North Sea

Year of Publication 2018

Sedimentary records of coastal storm surges: Evidence of the 1953 North Sea event

Year of Publication 2018

Linkages between the Genesis and resource potential of ferromanganese deposits in the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans

Year of Publication 2018

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