Identification

Data Identification:

citation:

Citation:

Title:

X-discontinuity observations beneath the African continent (NERC Grant NE/L002507/1)

Date:

CI_Date:

Date Type:

creation

date:

2023-02-12

Identifier:

RS_Identifier:

code:

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608028

Abstract:

X-discontinuity observations recorded from receiver function stacks of passive-source seismic data. Receiver functions are recorded between January 1990 and October 2021 at numerous seismometers on the African continent (see Pugh et al., 2023 for details). Receiver functions are downloaded, processed using SMURFPy (Cottaar et al., 2020). They are subsequently stacked in the depth and time-slowness domains in 1 degree radius overlapping bins and interpreted for the presence of the X-discontinuity. The dataset comprises 597 stacks, their location, the depth of the X-discontinuity, a classification of the stack and the amplitudes of the X-discontinuity. See Pugh et al., 2023 for further details on the method, the code used to download, process and stack receiver functions can be found at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4337258 Pugh et al., 2023 - Multigenetic Origin of the X-discontinuity Below Continents: Insights from African Receiver Functions.

Point of Contact:

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Stephen Pugh

Organisation Name:

University of Cambridge

Position Name:

PhD student

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

Delivery Point:

Department of Earth Sciences

city:

Cambridge

Postal Code:

CB2 3EQ

e-mail:

not available

role:

originator

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Alistair Boyce

Organisation Name:

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Position Name:

Postdoc

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

e-mail:

not available

role:

originator

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Ian Bastow

Organisation Name:

Imperial College London

Position Name:

Senior Lecturer

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

Delivery Point:

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

e-mail:

not available

role:

originator

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Dr Cynthia Ebinger

Organisation Name:

Tulane University

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

Delivery Point:

School of Science and Engineering

e-mail:

not available

role:

originator

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Sanne Cottaar

Organisation Name:

University of Cambridge

Position Name:

Department of Earth Sciences

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

e-mail:

not available

role:

originator

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Enquiries

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

e-mail:

not available

role:

distributor

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Enquiries

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

e-mail:

not available

role:

pointOfContact

Resource Maintenance:

MD_MaintenanceInformation:

maint. / update frequency:

notApplicable

Graphic overview:

Browse Graphic:

File Name:

https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/f4cddb09-51af-12fa-e053-0937940a6554.png

Descriptive Keywords:

Keywords:

keyword:

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept?cp=13&langcode=en&ns=5

keyword:

Geology

Thesaurus Name:

Citation:

Title:

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Date:

CI_Date:

date:

2008-06-01

Date Type:

publication

Keywords:

keyword:

Seismic data

keyword:

NGDC Deposited Data

keyword:

Discontinuity

Thesaurus Name:

Citation:

Title:

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Date:

CI_Date:

date:

2022

Date Type:

revision

Keywords:

keyword:

NGDC Deposited Data

keyword:

https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html

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

language:

eng

topicCategory:

geoscientificInformation

Extent:

Geographic Element:

Geographic Bounding Box:

westBoundLongitude:

-34.2700

eastBoundLongitude:

57.0600

southBoundLatitude:

-25.5800

northBoundLatitude:

38.0300

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:

AFRICA [id=600000]

Temporal Element:

TemporalExtent:

extent:

begin / end:

begin:

1990-01-01

end:

2021-09-30

Distribution

Distribution:

Distribution Format:

Format:

Format Name:

.rtf

Format:

Format Name:

.txt

Distributor:

Distributor Contact:

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Enquiries

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

e-mail:

not available

role:

distributor

Transfer Options:

Digital Transfer Options:

onLine:

CI_OnlineResource:

linkage:

https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item177542

name:

Data

function:

download

Digital Transfer Options:

onLine:

CI_OnlineResource:

linkage:

https://doi.org/10.5285/409dc3f0-f371-4322-bdc3-39cd439c28c9

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:

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:

Lineage:

LI_Lineage:

statement:

Seismic data are downloaded and processed as receiver functions using SMURFPy (Cottaar et al., 2020). One degree radius stacks of receiver functions are assessed for the presence of the X-discontinuity beneath Africa.

Metadata

File Identifier:

f4cddb09-51af-12fa-e053-0937940a6554

language:

eng

Resource type:

dataset

Metadata Contact:

Responsible Party:

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

phone:

CI_Telephone:

voice:

+44 115 936 3100

Address:

Delivery Point:

Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth

city:

NOTTINGHAM

administrative Area:

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Postal Code:

NG12 5GG

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/13608028