Date (Creation)

2026-03-04

Citation identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608648

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Edinburgh	Eric Breard	not available	Originator
University of South Florida	Sylvain Charbonnier	not available	Originator
University of Oregon	Josef Dufek	not available	Originator
University of Hull	Rebecca Williams	not available	Originator
US Geological Survey	Sarah Ogburn	not available	Originator
Boise State University	Brittany Brand	not available	Originator
Sheffield Hallam University	Natasha Dowey	not available	Originator
University of British Columbia	Mark Jellinek	not available	Originator
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich	Ulrich Kueppers	not available	Originator
Massey University	Gert Lube	not available	Originator
University of Bristol	Pete Rowley	not available	Originator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Grain size analysis

• Pyroclastic rocks

• Volcanism

• Volcanogenic deposits

• Ignimbrite

dataCentre

• NGDC Deposited Data
• Citable Data

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations

Other constraints

The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Language

English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Begin date

2024-03-01

End date

2026-02-01

Distribution format

Name	Version
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx)

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://flowdat.org/pdcd-dat	Project website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item191707	Data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://doi.org/10.5285/04c9ea44-4388-4239-b31e-47566ee5fd37	Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level

Non geographic dataset

Other

non geographic dataset

Statement

Data were mostly obtained from published studies but also, from unpublished studies by the authors. The database focussed on collating high-quality quantitative datasets and example datasets for the least frequently reported properties. We used the FlowDat database (Ogburn, 2012; 2025) as a starting point to identify target PDC deposits and sources of PDC deposit data. We focused on eruptions in FlowDat for which quantitative data were already recorded for one or more of the following bulk PDC properties or mobility metrics: total flow bulk volume, total flow planimetric area, runout, and H/L. This approach was chosen to enable users of the database to explore the relationships between PDC deposit properties and other PDC properties/mobility metrics. We searched the literature for studies on PDC deposits associated with these eruptions and relevant peer-reviewed studies containing at least one form of quantitative data were incorporated into the database. The full methodology is described in the manuscript PDCD-DAT – A global database of pyroclastic density current deposit field data published in the Journal of Applied Volcanology.

Metadata

File identifier

4c43663f-639c-71c3-e063-3050940a4347 XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Non geographic dataset

Hierarchy level name

non geographic dataset

Date stamp

2026-04-16

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey		enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608648