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Groundwater Monitoring Data, Virkisjokull Glacier Observatory, 2012-2018

Groundwater level and groundwater temperature data measured in 9 boreholes between August 2012 and August 2018. Groundwater conductivity data measured in 1 of these boreholes from September 2012 to August 2014. Eight of the boreholes are drilled into a sandur (glacial outwash floodplain) aquifer in front of Virkisjokull glacier, SE Iceland, and are between 8.2 and 14.9 m deep. The remaining borehole is drilled into a volcanic rock aquifer between the sandur and glacier and is 5.1 m deep. Selected groundwater monitoring data are reported in Ó Dochartaigh, B. É., et al. 2019. Groundwater?- glacier?meltwater interaction in proglacial aquifers, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-120. Further information on borehole installations and geology can be found in Ó Dochartaigh et al. 2012. Groundwater investigations at Virkisjokull, Iceland: data report 2012. British Geological Survey Open Report OR/12/088, http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/500570/

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Date (Creation)
2019-08-01
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607489
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

gsni@economy-ni.gov.uk

Distributor

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

gsni@economy-ni.gov.uk

Point of contact

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • Flood plains

  • Temperature

  • Ground water level

  • Aquifers

  • Hydrogeology

  • Conductivity

  • data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)

  • Glaciers

  • Groundwater

  • Monitoring

dataCentre
  • data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

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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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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]"

Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
ICELAND [id=903000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier
IS

ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision

Geographic identifier
ISL

ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

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Begin date
2012-08-21
End date
2018-08-25
Supplemental Information

Virkisjokull, SE Iceland. SW Long/Lat: -16.8605, 63.94247222 NE Long/Lat: -16.8220278, 63.96083333

Reference System Information

No information provided.
Distribution format
Name Version

MS Excel

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

gsni@economy-ni.gov.uk

Distributor
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html?#item129318
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci-discuss.net/hess-2019-120/
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/citedData/catalogue/3c28c1e9-d19d-431c-8c30-e9a014447d7b.html
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/glacierMonitoring/portal/home.html
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

Data were measured using automatic pressure-temperature loggers or an automatic pressure-temperature-conductivity logger. Measurements were recorded at 15 minute intervals between September 2012 and August 2014, and at 30 minute intervals between August 2014 and August 2018. Details are given in Ó Dochartaigh, B. É., et al. 2019. Groundwater- glacier meltwater interaction in proglacial aquifers, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-120.

Metadata

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8f0ad97e-c579-0a80-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-06
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/13607489

 
 

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Keywords

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