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)

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)

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P021)

Access constraints: Other restrictions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Distance: 5 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: Borders
BGS Gazetteer 2024-10-11 revision

Geographic identifier: Farne
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Geographic identifier: Swallow Hole
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Geographic identifier: Dogger
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Geographic identifier: Tay-Forth
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Geographic identifier: Marr Bank
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Geographic identifier: Devil's Hole
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Geographic identifier: Fisher
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Geographic identifier: Moray-Buchan
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Geographic identifier: Peterhead
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Geographic identifier: Forties
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Geographic identifier: Cod
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Geographic identifier: Caithness
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Geographic identifier: Bosies Bank
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Geographic identifier: Fladen
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Geographic identifier: Fair Isle
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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

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

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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.

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Metadata language: English

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2024-10-11

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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