Nirex Magnetic Tape Archives - Raw Data
A significant part of this data collection is geophysical survey data in digital form, being mainly instrumental recordings made during fieldwork. Derived data created during the subsequent processing and interpretation of the field data is described in 'Nirex Magnetic Tape Archives - Processed Data'. These data were originally stored on a variety of media. With the overall aim of delivering an efficient and effective archive service, the data have been consolidated onto DLT cartridges. Some related data, which were either analogue, on obscure media or in unknown formats have been retained in their original form. British Geological Survey maintains a full catalogue of the data, as an Access database.The data sets that comprise the magnetic archive are the following: Seismic surveys: marine, land and transition zone; field, navigation, statiatcs; Geophysical wireline logging of boreholes: routine wireline logging of investigation boreholes (gamma-ray, sonic, porosity, etc.); velocity surveys; dipmeter surveys;vertical seismic profiling; borehole televiewer (BHTV) surveys; formation microscanner (FMS) surveys; Ground surveys: magnetic; gravity; radiometric; thermal imaging; photographic imaging; in-flight videos. The ownership of NIREX (Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive) was transferred from the nuclear industry to the UK Government departments DEFRA and DTI in April 2005, and then to the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in November 2006.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 1989
- Citation identifier
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480435
- 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 British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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Deep drilling
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Gravity surveys
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Magnetic surveys
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Boreholes
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Site investigations
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Gamma rays
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Geophysics
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Radioactivity surveys
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Seismographs
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UK Location (INSPIRE)
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Porosity
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Seismic profiles
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- dataCentre
- Keywords
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NERC_DDC
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- 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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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.
- Denominator
- 10000
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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DOUNREAY [id=98586]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
- Geographic identifier
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SELLAFIELD [id=98585]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
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- Begin date
- 1989
- End date
- 1997
- Supplemental Information
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Data capture 1989-1997. The collection of data is complete as far as possible. Some data on obscure media or unknown formats may be obtained from their original format some later stage. The digital data from most of geophysical logs and surveys carried out by Nirex are held by the BGS. A few tapes, in unknown formats or are un-readable, have been retained. The remainder have deen copied onto DLT tapes for long term storage.
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
- Distribution format
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Name Version OTHER, UNKNOWN OR OBSCURE - Some related data, which were either analogue, on, obscure media or in unknown formats have been retained in their original form.
PHOTOGRAPHS
DIGITAL - The BGS maintains a full catalogue of the data, as an Access database.
VIDEO TAPE
DLT CARTRIDGES - With the overall aim of delivering an efficient and effective archive service, the data have been consolidated onto DLT cartridges.
- 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 http://www.bgs.ac.uk/reference/nirexarchive/home.html Nirex Geological Archive Homepage
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
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dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- 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
- Statement
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The data were obtained by Nirex during their investigations at Sellafield and Dounreay. All acquisition,handling and subsequent data analysis were carried out to BS 5750 pt 1 or BS EN ISO 9001
Metadata
- File identifier
- 9df8df51-63ec-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-09-07
- 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