Alternate title

Britrocks

Date ( Creation )

1986

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480097

Maintenance and update frequency

irregular Irregular

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Petrology

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Use constraints

otherRestrictions 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

Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (ipr@bgs.ac.uk ) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Spatial representation type

textTable Text, table

Denominator

10000

Metadata language

English English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

WORLD [id=100000]

 

Date ( Creation )

1979

N

S

E

W

Supplemental Information

Spatial precision varies from 1m to 1 km where estimated by reference to BGS gazetteer. In the database incomplete validation and data standards have allowed records of variable completeness, quality and accuracy to be present.

Distribution format

• Hardcopy - Paper ()

OnLine resource

BRITROCKS: mineralogy and petrology collections database - Homepage  

OnLine resource

BGS rock collections - Search form  

OnLine resource

BGS GeoIndex Collections  

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

Data as provided by BGS sample collectors, mostly geological mappers, then copied into paper registers by petrographers and later re-copied into electronic database.

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier

9df8df51-6320-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98   XML

Metadata language

English English

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Date stamp

2021-04-16

Metadata standard version

2.3

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480097