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Reference System

MD_ReferenceSystem:
referenceSystemIdentifier:
RS_Identifier:
code:
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
code:
WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Identification

Data Identification:
citation:
Citation:
Title:
Quaternary deposits thickness across the UK Continental Shelf (2014 Version)
Date:
CI_Date:
Date Type:
creation
date:
2014-03-31
CI_Date:
Date Type:
publication
date:
2014-03-31
Identifier:
RS_Identifier:
code:
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606631
Abstract:
The Quaternary deposits thickness dataset is a digital geological map across the bulk of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), for areas up to a water depth of 200m, which shows the thickness of the deposits over bedrock in three categories: <5m, 5-50m, and >50m Quaternary cover. These depth bands were picked because they represent the horizons that have impact on offshore infrastructure deployment. The map is derived from (unpublished) BGS 1:1000000 scale Quaternary digital geological mapping. The map was produced in 2014 in collaboration with, and co-funded by, The Crown Estate as part of a wider commissioned project to assess seabed geological constraints on engineering infrastructure across the UKCS. The data are held by the BGS as an ESRI ArcGIS Shapefile.
Point of Contact:
Responsible Party:
Individual Name:
Enquiries
Organisation Name:
British Geological Survey
Contact Info:
CI_Contact:
phone:
CI_Telephone:
voice:
0115 936 3142
facsimile:
0115 936 3276
Address:
Address:
Delivery Point:
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
city:
EDINBURGH
administrative Area:
LOTHIAN
Postal Code:
EH14 4AP
country:
United Kingdom
e-mail:
enquiries@bgs.ac.uk
role:
distributor
Responsible Party:
Individual Name:
Enquiries
Organisation Name:
British Geological Survey
Contact Info:
CI_Contact:
phone:
CI_Telephone:
voice:
0115 936 3142
facsimile:
0115 936 3276
Address:
Address:
Delivery Point:
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
city:
EDINBURGH
administrative Area:
LOTHIAN
Postal Code:
EH14 4AP
country:
United Kingdom
e-mail:
enquiries@bgs.ac.uk
role:
originator
Responsible Party:
Individual Name:
Enquiries
Organisation Name:
British Geological Survey
Contact Info:
CI_Contact:
phone:
CI_Telephone:
voice:
0115 936 3142
facsimile:
0115 936 3276
Address:
Address:
Delivery Point:
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
city:
EDINBURGH
administrative Area:
LOTHIAN
Postal Code:
EH14 4AP
country:
United Kingdom
e-mail:
enquiries@bgs.ac.uk
role:
pointOfContact
Resource Maintenance:
MD_MaintenanceInformation:
maint. / update frequency:
notPlanned
Graphic overview:
Browse Graphic:
File Name:
https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/166c7ca4-0bff-1f2d-e054-002128a47908.png
Descriptive Keywords:
Keywords:
keyword:
Geology
keyword:
http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept?cp=13&langcode=en&ns=5
Thesaurus Name:
Citation:
Title:
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Date:
CI_Date:
date:
2008-06-01
Date Type:
publication
Keywords:
keyword:
UK Location (INSPIRE)
keyword:
Geological maps
keyword:
Quaternary
keyword:
Continental shelf
Thesaurus Name:
Citation:
Title:
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
Date:
CI_Date:
date:
2022
Date Type:
revision
Keywords:
keyword:
UK Location (INSPIRE)
keyword:
http://www.data.gov.uk
Type:
dataCentre
Keywords:
keyword:
NERC_DDC
Resource Constraints:
MD_LegalConstraints:
Access Constraints:
otherRestrictions
Other Constraints:
licenceOGL
Other Constraints:
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
Other Constraints:
http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/LimitationsOnPublicAccess/noLimitations
MD_LegalConstraints:
Use Constraints:
otherRestrictions
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]"
Spatial Representation Type:
vector
Spatial Resolution:
Resolution:
Equivalent Scale:
Representative Fraction:
denominator:
250000
language:
eng
topicCategory:
geoscientificInformation
Extent:
Extent:
Geographic Element:
Geographic Bounding Box:
westBoundLongitude:
-9.6000
eastBoundLongitude:
3.4000
southBoundLatitude:
48.1800
northBoundLatitude:
61.8200
Geographic Description:
Geographic Identifier:
RS_Identifier:
authority:
Citation:
Title:
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus
Date:
CI_Date:
Date Type:
creation
date:
1979
code:
UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]
Temporal Element:
TemporalExtent:
extent:
begin / end:
begin:
1966
end:
2013

Distribution

Distribution:
Distribution Format:
Format:
Format Name:
ESRI shapefiles
Distributor:
Distributor:
Distributor Contact:
Responsible Party:
Individual Name:
Enquiries
Organisation Name:
British Geological Survey
Contact Info:
CI_Contact:
phone:
CI_Telephone:
voice:
0115 936 3142
facsimile:
0115 936 3276
Address:
Address:
Delivery Point:
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
city:
EDINBURGH
administrative Area:
LOTHIAN
Postal Code:
EH14 4AP
country:
United Kingdom
e-mail:
enquiries@bgs.ac.uk
role:
distributor
Transfer Options:
Digital Transfer Options:
onLine:
CI_OnlineResource:
linkage:
https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item172373
name:
Data
function:
download
Digital Transfer Options:
onLine:
CI_OnlineResource:
linkage:
https://doi.org/10.5285/0cc60652-c02c-4931-b5bf-def9299b68f2
name:
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
function:
information

Data Quality

Data Quality:
Scope:
DQ_Scope:
level:
dataset
Level Description:
MD_ScopeDescription:
other:
dataset
Report:
Domain Consistency:
Result:
Conformance Result:
specification:
Citation:
Title:
INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
Date:
CI_Date:
Date Type:
publication
date:
2011
explanation:
See the referenced specification
pass:
0
Domain Consistency:
Result:
Conformance Result:
specification:
Citation:
Title:
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date:
CI_Date:
Date Type:
publication
date:
2010-12-08
explanation:
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
pass:
0
Lineage:
LI_Lineage:
statement:
Areas of Quaternary thin cover were originally from the 1:1000000 Quaternary layer (unpublished). Polygons with attributes of less than 5m thick (offshore) were isolated and used to create this new ArcGIS shapefile of Quaternary thin cover. Polygons of areas where Quaternary thickness is less than 50 m or greater than 50 m were created using the Quaternary Thickness layer, which consists of isopach lines (polylines) of sediment thickness derived from the 1:1000000 Quaternary layer (unpublished). As these polygons originate from 1:1000000 scale maps, they are not of high resolution. The processing was done in ArcGIS 10.1. Part of this dataset, mainly around the coastline, has been coarsely interpolated so that its extent covers the whole factor map area. The methodology used to fill in no-data areas consists of dividing these areas into square grids (10x10km) where each polygon within the grid will get assigned the category value of the polygon sharing its border in an iterative process until all polygons within the grid have a category value. This iteration was done by running the ArcGIS Spatial Join tool several times with the match option “SHARE_A_LINE_SEGMENT_WITH”. The final step is merging the now attributed grid to the dataset and dissolving the polygons.

Metadata

File Identifier:
166c7ca4-0bff-1f2d-e054-002128a47908
language:
eng
Resource type:
dataset
Metadata Contact:
Responsible Party:
Organisation Name:
British Geological Survey
Contact Info:
CI_Contact:
phone:
CI_Telephone:
voice:
+44 131 667 1000
Address:
Address:
Delivery Point:
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
city:
EDINBURGH
administrative Area:
LOTHIAN
Postal Code:
EH14 4AP
country:
United Kingdom
e-mail:
enquiries@bgs.ac.uk
role:
pointOfContact
Date Stamp:
2024-04-24
Metadata Standard Name:
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/M25/current/GEMINI/
Metadata Standard Name:
UK GEMINI
Metadata Standard Version:
2.3
Dataset URI:
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606631