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British Geological Survey (BGS) Geophysical Survey 1980/3: UK central North Sea between 56 and 59 degrees N (07/07/1980 to 07/09/1980)

Report: Brett, CP. 1980. Cruise report on Project 80/03. A regional geophysical survey in the northern North Sea. (IGS Report No 105)

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Date (Publication)
1980-09-07
Citation identifier
British Geological Survey / BGS_CMD_REF184
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey (BGS)

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Custodian

British Geological Survey (BGS)

offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Keywords
  • NDGO0001

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages (L131)

  • soil and sediment
  • crust

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P021)

  • Gravity
  • Bathymetry and Elevation
  • Magnetics
  • Two-dimensional seismic reflection
  • Side-scan sonar
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Access constraints
No restrictions, a copyright acknowledgement is required and permission from any third party for the release of the data has been obtained. Inclusion of any third party data will determine the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.
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.

Use limitation

unrestricted use, copyright acknowledgement - Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced British Geological Survey materials "Contains British Geological Survey materials ©UKRI [year]"

Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
5  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
Borders

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Farne

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Swallow Hole

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Dogger

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Tay-Forth

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Marr Bank

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Devil's Hole

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Fisher

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Moray-Buchan

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Peterhead

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Forties

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Cod

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Caithness

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Bosies Bank

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Fladen

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Fair Isle

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Northern North Sea

Charting Progress 2: Regional Sea Boundaries 2009-06-18 creation

Geographic identifier
NORTH SEA

The SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer: Sub-Ocean Category 1954-01-01 creation

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Begin date
1980-07-07
End date
1980-09-07
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

www.epsg.org 2005 revision

Distribution format
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Geological Survey (BGS)

    enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

    Distributor
    OnLine resource
    Protocol Linkage Name

    HTTP

    http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex_offshore/home.html?cruise=1980/3

    BGS Offshore Geoindex

    Hierarchy level
    Dataset

    Conformance result

    Title

    INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of unknown theme

    Date (Publication)
    2011
    Explanation

    See the referenced specification

    Pass
    No
    Statement

    Geophysical equipment types used included: Airgun/Sleeve Gun, Deep Tow Boomer, Echo Sounder, Gravimeter, Magnetometer, Pinger, Sidescan Sonar, Sparker, Transit Sonar and Water Gun. The survey was undertaken by British Geological Survey. Positioning: Magnavox satellite navigation system integrated with MX610/MX600 doppler sonar and Arma Brown Mk I Mod 5 gyro compass Decca Mk 21 main chain receiver - optional inegration with the above. Echo sounding: Atlas Deso 10 echo sounder with hull mounted transducers (33 and 210 kHz) and Edig 10 digitiser unit Sonar systems: Kelvin Hughes MS47 transit sonar - hull mounted, port scanning UDI AS350 dual channel side-scan sonar with catamaran tow fish Recording on an EPC 3200 graphic recorder Seismic systems: Edo Western 248 pinger: 3.5 kHz, 10kW transducer in tow-fish assembly. Used with TSS Model 302 swell filter. Recording on EPC 4600 graphic recorder Huntec Deep-tow Boomer: system with remote controlled winch, 2 x Krohn-hite bandpass filters. Huntec ST2 hydrophone. Recording on an EPC 4100 graphic recorder EG&G sparker system: up to 5kJ capability, one 3-element and 1 5-element spark array. Krohn-hite bandpass filter, TSS Model 307 TVG amplifier. EG&G 263C x2 hydrophones with Teledyne 7 channel (10m) in latter part of the survey). Recording on an EPC 4600 graphic recorder Air gun system: Bolt 600B, two guns with standard (1-40cubic inch) range of chamber sizes, Krohn-hite bandpass filter, TSS Model 307 TVG amplifier. Geomecanique 30m hydrophone (also a Geomecanique 50m 3 section hydrophone used with the airgun and water gun). Recording on an EPC4600 graphic recorder. Water gun system: Sodera Mica-T 80 cubic inch gun recording as for the air gun system. Gravitymeter: LaCoste and Romberg S75 air-sea gravity meter. World Wide land gravity meter used for base ties. Magnetometer: Barringer proton magnetometer. For more detailed information see the Cruise Report.

    Metadata

    File identifier
    abc9f747-53c5-0f38-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2025-05-08
    Metadata standard name

    MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard

    Metadata standard version

    Version 2.3.5

    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Geological Survey (BGS)

    enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

    Point of contact
     
     

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