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Upper mantle anisotropy models from mantle circulation simulations

A set of global upper mantle anisotropy models generated from TERRA plate-motion constrained mantle circulation models run under different conditions. Provided calculations include upper mantle anisotropy parameterised in both original triclinic symmetry and a reduced radial symmetry.

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Date (Creation)
2026-07-29
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608756
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

University of Cardiff

Professor J Huw Davies

not available

Originator

University College London

Ana Ferreira

not available

Originator

University of Leeds

Andy Nowacki

not available

Originator

University of Bristol

James Wookey

not available

Originator

University of Oxford

Andrew Walker

not available

Originator

University of Cardiff

James Panton

not available

Originator

University of Bristol

Isabella Altoé

not available

Originator

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Distributor

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • Seismic anisotropy

  • Earth mantle

dataCentre
  • Citable Data
  • NGDC Deposited Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
licenceOGL
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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]"

Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2022-07-01
End date
2025-07-31

Reference System Information

No information provided.
Distribution format
Name Version

ASCII text (TXT)

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related

https://doi.org/10.5285/0f72fc7a-5e20-413f-99e6-f238b492638f

Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item192931

Data

Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Other

non geographic 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

The methodology for calculating both the TERRA models and the resulting anisotropy models is described in Davies et al (PRSA, 2025) (doi: 10.1098/rspa.2024.0827)

Metadata

File identifier
5871c9cd-750d-764d-e063-3050940a36f1 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name

non geographic dataset

Date stamp
2026-08-25
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/13608756

 
 

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