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British Geological Survey (BGS) Geophysical Survey 1979/14: Shetland (10/07/1979 to 14/08/1979)

Report: Armstrong, EJ. 1979. Cruise Report for Project 79/14, West Shetland and Project 79/15, Bosies Bank. (IGS Report No 101). Project 79/14 was designed to provide regional geophysical coverage of the Foula sheet, of the IGS 1:250000 map series, on a N-S, E-W grid of lines at approximately 15km by 9 km spacing. A number of gravity lines were also to be run over the Orkney sheet to complete gravity coverage in that area. In addition, some regional geophysical lines were to be surveyed on the Halibut Bank sheet after a study of the FLAGS pipeline route with the Huntec deep tow boomer. The watergun provided superior records to those of the airgun giving resolution comparable to the sparker in fair weather, down to 800ms of sediments. Up to 400ms penetration was achieved by the sparker, while the boomer provided good resolution in the shallow section. In depths less than 300m the transit sonar was used.

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Date (Publication)
1979-08-14
Citation identifier
British Geological Survey / BGS_CMD_REF171
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
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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.
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Other restrictions
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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.

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
Peterhead

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
Rona

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Orkney

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Fair Isle

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Bressay Bank

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Judd

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Foula

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Shetland

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Halibut Bank

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Sando Bank

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Flett

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Miller

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Cormorant

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Faroe Shetland Basin

BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-08 revision

Geographic identifier
Northern North Sea

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

Geographic identifier
Scottish Continental Shelf

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

Geographic identifier
Atlantic North-West Approaches, Rockall Trough and Faeroe/Shetland Channel

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

Geographic identifier
NORWEGIAN SEA

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

Geographic identifier
NORTH SEA

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

Geographic identifier
NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W)

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

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Begin date
1979-07-10
End date
1979-08-14
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=1979/14

    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, Sparker, Transit Sonar and Water Gun. The survey was undertaken by British Geological Survey. Navigation: Magnavox satellite navigation system integrated with MX 610 doppler sonar. Decca Mk21 Main Chain. Equipment: Bolt 40, 20 and 10 cu.in airguns. Huntec deep tow boomer. Atlas Deso 10 echo sounder with hull mounted transducer and digital readout unit (Edig 10). LaCoste & Romberg air-sea gravity meters S75 and S40 (legs 1 and 2 only) with Monitor Labs 9400 data acquisition system. Two Barringer magnetometers. Edo Western 248 pinger with hull mounted transducers. IGS multi-element spark array and EG&G 9 candle and 3 candle spark arrays. MS47 side scan sonar. Sodera 80 cu.in watergun. Two 30m Geomechanique hydrophones and one 50m Geomechanique hydrophone. For more detailed information see the Cruise Report.

    Metadata

    File identifier
    abc9f747-53de-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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