Legacy BGS geothermal models: depth to the top Sherwood Sandstone Group in the Permo-Triassic Cheshire, Worcester, Wessex and East Yorkshire-Lincolnshire basins
This raster dataset represents the modelled depth in meters to the top Sherwood Sandstone Group (SSG) in the Permo-Triassic Cheshire, Wessex, Worcester and East Yorkshire-Lincolnshire basins, considered for their hot sedimentary aquifer geothermal resource potential. The maps are provided in raster format at a 100 m resolution.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 1995
- Citation identifier
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608354
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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Sandstone reservoirs
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Triassic
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UK Location (INSPIRE)
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Geothermal maps
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Aquifers
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Basement depth maps
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- dataCentre
- Keywords
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NERC_DDC
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- 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
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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
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
- Other constraints
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The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section ( iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 100 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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Cheshire Basin [id=1000427]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geological gazetteer 2005 creation
- Geographic identifier
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EAST YORKSHIRE & LINCOLNSHIRE [id=156000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
- Geographic identifier
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Wessex Basin [id=1000328]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geological gazetteer 2005 creation
- Geographic identifier
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Worcestershire County [id=2993]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: OS Boundary Line 2009 revision
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- Begin date
- 1978
- End date
- 2025
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- -2425.0000
- Maximum value
- 118.0000
Vertical datum
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
- Distribution format
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Name Version
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://ukgtp.bgs.ac.uk UK Geothermal Platform Web Map
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://ukgeothermalplatform.org UK Geothermal Platform
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
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- No
Conformance result
- Title
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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
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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- No
- Statement
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These depth maps were developed as part of the assessment of the geothermal resources of Permo-Triassic basins in England, published by Rollin, K. E., G. A. Kirby, and W. J. Rowley. Atlas of geothermal resources in Europe: UK revision. British Geological Survey, Regional Geophysics Group, 1995. Depth maps of relevant horizons taken from the Atlas of Onshore Sedimentary Basins (Whittaker et al., 1985) and revised where new data had become available since their production (e.g. detailed seismic interpretations) were used to provide and refine the main geological and structural models. The 1995 digital grids of the depth to top/base of the main aquifers were generated using the Interactive Surface Modeling package, integrating both vertical and non-vertical faults identified in the seismic data. Grids were calculated at a 1000 m square node spacing and gridded at 200 x 250 m for the Cheshire Basin, providing the depth as a positive value below Ordnance Datum. The maps for each basin were merged into a single layer and converted to mAOD as part of the 2025 UK Geothermal Platform project.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 2f978cba-f4ce-18b2-e063-0937940af2d2 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-04-24
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Point of contact
- Dataset URI