Legacy BGS geothermal models: isopach map for the early Carboniferous limestone (hot sedimentary aquifers) in northern and southern England
This raster dataset represents the thickness in metres of the early Carboniferous limestone (ECL) over the Northern and Southern Provinces in Great Britain. The layer may be used to identify prospective geothermal heat resources, such as areas with deep burial depths beneath thick Permian-Mesozoic sequences, as in the Cheshire Basin, and the flanks of the East Irish Sea and Southern North Sea basins; or beneath thick later Carboniferous strata, as in the Stoke-on-Trent area.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2023
- Citation identifier
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608360
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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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Limestone
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Isopach maps
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UK Location (INSPIRE)
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Carboniferous
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Aquifers
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Geothermal energy
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- dataCentre
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NERC_DDC
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- 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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- Other restrictions
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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.
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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]"
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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
- 2500 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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NORTHERN ENGLAND [id=151000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
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SOUTHERN ENGLAND [id=158800]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
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- Begin date
- 2022
- End date
- 2025
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
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Name Version
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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
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- Dataset
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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
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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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- Statement
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The study was conducted to assess the geothermal resource from the early Carboniferous limestone (ECL) in Great Britain, including an assessment of the depth, distribution and geothermal potential of the ECL published in D J.R. Jones, T. Randles, T. Kearsey, T.C. Pharaoh, A. Newell (2023). Deep geothermal resource assessment of early Carboniferous limestones for Central and Southern Great Britain, Geothermics, 109, 102649, ISNN 0375-6505, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102649.. Two geological models were created for the northern and southern ECL provinces using borehole horizon markers, depth converted seismic picks and polygons defining erosional limits of formations and outcrop from BGS surface mapping using SKUA-GOCAD. An implicit geological modeling method was used, where all the geological units were modelled simultaneously using all the available data held and interpolated within a 3D framework. The gridded geological model was attributed with appropriate bulk density values based on average values that are known from the two areas (Rollin, 1987). These were mapped to the 3D grid using a combination of lithostratigraphic unit and any internal lithological variation that had been modelled. The geological grids were then converted to regular grids with a 2500 × 2500 metre horizontal resolution and 50 metre vertical resolution to be imported into the volumetric 'heat in place' (HIP) calculator.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 2f98f2ff-2edf-37b7-e063-0937940a4ed0 XML
- Metadata language
- English
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-04-30
- 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