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Legacy BGS geothermal models: temperature map of the UK at 7 km depth

This raster dataset represents the temperature distribution at 7 km depth in the UK. Method described in Busby, J. and Terrington, R., 2017. Assessment of the resource base for engineered geothermal systems in Great Britain. Geothermal Energy, 5, pp.1-18 and were used to calculated the heat-in-place and recoverable heat in EGS systems.

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Date (Publication)
2017
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608372
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • UK Location (INSPIRE)

  • Aquifers

  • Geothermal energy

  • Temperature

dataCentre
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

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

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]"

Other constraints

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
1000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
ENG

ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

Geographic identifier
ENGLAND [id=150000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier
SCOTLAND [id=140000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier
SCT

ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

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S
E
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Begin date
1978
End date
2017
Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
Distribution format
Name Version
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://ukgtp.bgs.ac.uk

UK Geothermal Platform Web Map

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://ukgeothermalplatform.org

UK Geothermal Platform

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other

dataset

Conformance result

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

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

These temperature maps were calculated based on a 2-layer model comprising the basement and the overlying sedimentary rocks, constructed from a series of surfaces exported from the BGS LithoFrame 1:1M model ( http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/3Dgeology/lithoframe.html). Following the Beardsmore Protocol, the temperature at 1 km was first calculated based on surface heat flow (corrected for paleoclimate), mean surface temperature (mean annual air temperature), the thermal conductivity structure of the 2-layer model (thickness-weighted and temperature-corrected harmonic mean of all the formations in the sedimentary section) and the heat production within the sedimentary layer and basement (thickness-weighted arithmetic mean of all the sedimentary formations). Thermal conductivities of individual formations were taken from Rollin (2002). The temperatures at the mid-point of each 1000 m depth interval from 3000 m to the base of the model at 9500 m were then calculated, assuming heat conduction only and accounting for the decrease in radiogenic heat production with depth.

Metadata

File identifier
2faa1d08-931f-56db-e063-0937940af90d XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-08
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608372

 
 

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Keywords

UK Location (INSPIRE)


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