Ice Streams in the Laurentide Ice Sheet (NERC grant NE/J00782X/1)

Data generated using freely-available satellite remote sensing observations from the USGS Earth Resources Observation Science Centre, together with a freely-available ice margin chronology from Dyke et al. (2003) Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report No. 1574. The map is published in the Journal of Maps: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17445647.2014.912036 Published article in 'Nature' Volume 530 Feb 2016 with associated source data. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature16947 Published paper in the Taylor Francis Online Journal with associated data. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2014.912036

Identification

Data identification

Citation

Date (Creation)
2015-05
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606897
Point of contact
  University of Durham - Professor C R Stokes ( Geography)

Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • NGDC Deposited Data

  • Glaciers

  • Land ice

  • Glaciation
dataCentre
Keywords

  • NERC_DDC

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no limitations
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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.

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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

Extent

Geographic identifier
ANTARCTICA [id=880000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier
CA

ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision

Geographic identifier
CAN

ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

Geographic identifier
CANADA [id=710000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier
GREENLAND [id=902000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier
USA [id=750000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

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2015-05 Before
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NERC grant NE/J00782X/1
 

Quality

Data quality

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dataset

Conformance result

Citation

Title

INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation

See the referenced specification
Pass
No

Conformance result

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 (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass
No
Statement

For lineage information see published reports, 'Ice streams in the Laurentide Ice Sheet: a new mapping inventory' Martin Margold, Chris R. Stokes, Chris D. Clark and Johan Kleman and 'Ice stream activity scaled to ice sheet volume during Laurentide Ice Sheet deglaciation' C.R.Stokes, M.Margold, C.D.Clark and L.Tarasov

 

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Metadata

Metadata

File identifier
2d88cb11-f803-64c3-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-06-29
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey

Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth, NOTTINGHAM, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, NG12 5GG, United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606897

 
 

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