WMS The addition of lime can improve soil conditions for the growth of forage for ruminate animals by providing optimal pH conditions. Also, alongside the reduction of soil acidity, the application of magnesium-rich agricultural lime products can help to ensure pasture forage contains sufficient magnesium to avoid hypomagnesaemia in livestock. This is a regional level dataset designed for rapid desk based assessments and should not be used as a substitute for local level ground investigations. This work was funded jointly by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council under The Sustainable Agriculture research & Innovation Club (SARIC), and was carried out as part of a collaborative project of the University of Nottingham, British Geological Survey, Aberystwyth University, Germinal Holdings Limited, Origin Fertilisers, XL Vet UK Limited and Yara UK Limited. These data are delivered under the terms of the Open Government Licence, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced BGS materials: "Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI [year]". Based upon: LCM2015 © UKCEH 2017. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown Copyright 2007, Licence number 100017572 Model estimates of topsoil pH and bulk density [Countryside Survey]. Henrys, P.A.; Keith, A.M.; Robinson, D.A.; Emmett, B.A. (2012). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2014. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2007 Garry Baker British Geological Survey Head of BGS Data Centre postal

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Keyworth Nottingham NG12 5GG UK +44 (0)115 936 3100 +44 (0)115 936 3200 enquiries@bgs.ac.uk none These data are delivered under the terms of the Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/), subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced BGS materials: Contains British Geological Survey materials copyright NERC [year]. Contact us if you create something new and innovative that could benefit others usingbgsdata@bgs.ac.uk. 2048 2048 application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml text/xml image/bmp image/jpeg image/tiff image/png image/png8 image/png24 image/png32 image/gif image/svg+xml application/vnd.esri.wms_raw_xml application/vnd.esri.wms_featureinfo_xml application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml application/geo+json text/xml text/html text/plain application/vnd.ogc.sld+xml application/vnd.ogc.se_xml application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage application/vnd.ogc.se_blank text/xml XML CRS:84 EPSG:4326 EPSG:27700 -6.2001622.03916949.94908655.752385 Lime_areas_final This dataset shows areas in England and Wales where it may be beneficial to apply agricultural lime, and if so, whether calcium (Ca) or magnesium (Mg) rich limestone are the most appropriate products. Data from four datasets have been combined to create a tool to give easily accessible information to help in decisions to identify the most effective soil improvement techniques. datasets used are soil pH, land use (to delineate areas of grassland appropriate for liming) (both based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology), soil texture and soil Mg availability (based on BGS data). The full methodology outlining how this data set has been constructed, sources of component datasets used and how it can be used are given in Bide et al., 2021. A spatial analysis of lime resources and their potential for improving soil magnesium concentrations and pH in grassland areas of England and Wales. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98735-w) Map Geology Soil United Kingdom Agriculture Lime OneGeology continent@Europe subcontinent@Northern Europe geographicarea@United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland subregiion@GB-EAW dataprovider@British Geological Survey serviceprovider@British Geological Survey DS_TOPIC@geoscientificinformation DS_DATE@2022 thematic@Soil thematic@Pedology thematic@Surface geology CRS:84 EPSG:4326 EPSG:27700 -6.2001622.03916949.94908655.752385