BGS Metadata Catalogue
Africa Groundwater Atlas
The Africa Groundwater Atlas is an online resource developed by the BGS, in collaboration with hydrogeologists across Africa. This service presents layers showing the hydrogeology (aquifer type and productivity) and geology (with particular reference to hydrogeology) of 38 African countries.
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Identification info
- Date (Revision)
- 2019-11
- Citation identifier
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608621
- 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
- As needed
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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Hydrogeology
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- dataCentre
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata, Part D 4, Classification of Spatial Data Services
- 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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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.
- Service Type
- view
- Geographic identifier
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AFRICA [id=600000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
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- End date
- 2019
- Coupling Type
- Tight
Contains Operations
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG::3857)
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
- Distribution format
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Name Version Image (PNG)
Image (TIFF)
Image (JPEG)
Image (GIF)
Image (BMP)
- 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 OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities
https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/AGA/BGS_Groundwater/MapServer/WmsServer?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities BGS Groundwater
- Hierarchy level
- Service
- Other
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service
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
- Pass
- 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
- Explanation
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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
Conformance result
- Title
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Technical Guidance for the implementation of INSPIRE View Services Version 3.0
- Date (Publication)
- 2011-03-21
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification at http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Network_Services/TechnicalGuidance_ViewServices_v3.0.pdf
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- No
- Statement
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The Atlas country hydrogeology maps were developed by modifying and attributing a digital Africa-wide geology map at 1:5 million scale, using available hydrogeological and geological information. The 1:5 million scale geology map was originally published by UNESCO (Furon and Lombard 1964), and was digitised by, and is made available through, the USGS (Persits et al. 2002). This map was used by the British Geological Survey to develop three Africa-wide quantitative groundwater maps, released in 2012. The Atlas country hydrogeology maps are a further development of these Africa-wide groundwater maps, incorporating additional geological and hydrogeological information from individual countries. Where possible, the country hydrogeology maps have been validated in collaboration with hydrogeologists from the relevant countries who are co-authors on the relevant country pages of the Africa Groundwater Atlas. Furon R and Lombard J. 1964. Explanatory note: Geological Map of Africa (1/5,000,000) / Note explicative: carte geologique de l'Afrique (1/5,000,000). UNESCO and the Association for African Geological Surveys (ASGA). UNESCO, Paris, 1964. Persits, F, Ahlbrandt, T, Tuttle, M, Charpentier, R, Brownfield, M, and Takahashi, K. 2002. | Map showing geology, oil and gas fields and geologic provinces of Africa, Ver 2.0. USGS Open File report 97-470 A.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 4a1147b9-44a1-f6da-e063-3050940aa9a1 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Service
- Hierarchy level name
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service
- Date stamp
- 2026-02-24
- 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
