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Gro for GooD VES (Vertical Electrical Soundings) Data, Kwale County, Kenya (NERC grant NE/M008894/1)

Results of Vertical Electrical Soundings (VES) study conducted in Kwale County, Kenya in July and August 2017 by University of Nairobi and Water Resources Management Authority as part of the Gro for GooD project ( https://upgro.org/consortium/gro-for-good/) to determine the existence of deeper aquifers.

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Metadata Language
English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
2018-08-20
Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607375

 

University of Oxford

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Dr R A Hope

(

School of Geography and the Environment

)

Oxford

,

OX1 3QY

,
 

University of Oxford

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Nancy Gladstone

(

Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

)

Oxford

,

OX1 3QY

,
 

Rural Focus Ltd

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Calvince Wara


P.O. Box 1011-10400

,

Nanyuki

,

Kenya

 

Rural Focus Ltd

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Mike Thomas


P.O. Box 1011-10400

,

Nanyuki

,

Kenya

 

Water Resources Management Authority

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David Shokut


Kenya

 

University of Nairobi

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Dan Olago

(

Department of Geology

)

Nairobi

,

Kenya

 

University of Nairobi

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Julius Odida


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GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Geophysics

  • Geology

  • Hydrogeology

Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

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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 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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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Extent

KE

Dataset Reference Date ()
2009

Extent

KEN

Dataset Reference Date ()
2009

Extent

KENYA [id=687000]

Dataset Reference Date ()
1979

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Begin date
2017-07-01
End date
2017-08-31
 

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https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item114529
Resource Locator
http://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/853667/
Resource Locator
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item114529
Resource Locator
http://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/853667/
 
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dataset
Other

dataset

Report

Dataset Reference Date ()
2011
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Degree

Report

Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Degree
Statement

Direct Current (DC) electrical resistivity method is commonly used to delineate aquifer composition, groundwater, bed-rock, fresh and salt intrusion (Robinson and Coruh, 1988; Burger, 1992; Telford et al. 1990; method detailed in Lowrie, 2007). VES was conducted in SSW-NNE direction parallel to the geological strike in the coastal area using ABEM SAS 1000 terrameter. Maximum current electrode separation was 1,000m. The array type was Schlumberger. Readings were repeated to get the value with the least standard deviation to increase data quality. Sites were identified in all the major geological formations and the survey conducted transverse to geological strikes. A total of thirty five (35) points were probed in a N-S orientation with current electrode separation of 500m. Potential was boosted at 32m, 80m and 250m during data acquisition to increase uniformity.

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75bca52e-3198-3d4a-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata Language
English (en)
Resource type
dataset
Metadata Date
2023-01-23
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

 

British Geological Survey


Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth

,

NOTTINGHAM

,

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

,

NG12 5GG

,

United Kingdom

+44 115 936 3100
 
 

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