Date (Creation)

2011-04-01

Citation identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605549

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Custodian
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Originator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Owner
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

Irregular

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Scottish SDI

• Continental shelf

• GIS

• Sea floor sediments

• MEDIN

• Geology

• Maps

• Digital maps

• Marine geology

• Sea floor

• Data

• Grain size analysis

• Sediments

• UK Location (INSPIRE)

dataCentre

• UK Location (INSPIRE)
• Scottish SDI
• MEDIN

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

license

Other constraints

Either : (i) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under license; and / or (ii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted before the dataset can be provided to, or accessed by, BGS staff or external clients. 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 access restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (IPR@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

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

The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section ( iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

250000

Language

English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Begin date

2011 Before

End date

2011

Unique resource identifier

WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

Name	Version
ArcGis .shp	Current BGS version
MapInfo .tab	Current BGS version
Other formats available on request

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.bgs.ac.uk/datasets/marine-sediments-250k/	BGS Datasets - Seabed sediments 250k Homepage

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.5285/e0df9db6-09ac-4fa3-a815-1394c1988654	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

The original version of Seabed Sediments at 1:250 000 scale dataset (then known as DiGSBS250k) was digitised from the scanned version of the hard copy,1:250 000 scale offshore geological maps series. Sheets of these series were issued on a regular grid, with each map sheet covering an area of one degree of latitude by two degrees of longitude. Details of the printed map sheet names, numbers and publication dates are available from the BGS online catalogue and the printed maps are still available via the BGS Bookshop. The second version of this dataset was released in 2007 (named at the time DiGSBS250k v.2). The principal objective of this revision was to improve the positional accuracy of the data in the dataset. The third and current version of the Seabed Sediments at 1:250 000 scale dataset was released in 2011 (named as DiGRock250k v.3). This version has been updated using new PSA samples and multibeam data to directly modify the digital version.

Metadata

File identifier

9e32312c-b027-521b-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-05-07

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/13605549