British Geological Survey (BGS) Geophysical Survey 1972/5: Moray Firth and Sea of Hebrides (02/08/1972 to 15/08/1972)
This marine geophysical survey undertaken by Institute of Geological Sciences (BGS) took place in August 1972 in the Moray Firth and Sea of the Hebrides on board the M.V. Researcher. The survey was carried out as part of a regional mapping programme. Data were gathered for Project:72/5 using the following equipment Loch Ness: MS32 Echo-sounder, Fresh water sparker. Moray Firth: La Coste Gravimeter, 1000J Sparker, MS32 Echo-sounder. Sea of Hebrides: La Coste Gravimeter, Barringer Magnetometer, 2500J Sparker, MS47 Transit Sonar, Edo Western PDR. Blackstones Bank: Refraction, MS32 Echo-sounder. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in BGS Internal Report WB/ MG/72/35.
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- Date (Publication)
- 1972-08-15
- Citation identifier
- British Geological Survey / BGS_CMD_REF57
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Custodian British Geological Survey (BGS)
Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages (L131)
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P021)
- 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
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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
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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 5 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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Malin
BGS Gazetteer 2024-09-07 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Tiree
BGS Gazetteer 2024-09-07 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Argyll
BGS Gazetteer 2024-09-07 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Moray-Buchan
BGS Gazetteer 2024-09-07 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Northern North Sea
Charting Progress 2: Regional Sea Boundaries 2009-06-18 creation
- Geographic identifier
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Minches & Western Scotland
Charting Progress 2: Regional Sea Boundaries 2009-06-18 creation
- Geographic identifier
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INNER SEAS OFF THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND
The SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer: Sub-Ocean Category 1954-01-01 creation
- Geographic identifier
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NORTH SEA
The SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer: Sub-Ocean Category 1954-01-01 creation
![thumbnail](https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/regions/geom.png?geomsrs=EPSG:4326&geom=POLYGON((-2.0761%2055.8424,-2.0761%2057.8952,-7.6032%2057.8952,-7.6032%2055.8424,-2.0761%2055.8424)))
- Begin date
- 1972-08-02
- End date
- 1972-08-15
- Reference system identifier
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OGP
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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
www.epsg.org 2005 revision
- Distribution format
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- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name HTTP
http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex_offshore/home.html?cruise=1972/5 BGS Offshore Geoindex
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
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Geophysical equipment types used included: Echo Sounder, Gravimeter, Magnetometer, Pinger, Refraction or Wide-angle Reflection, Sparker and Transit Sonar. The survey was undertaken by British Geological Survey. For more detailed information on the acquisition equipment and data collection techniques, operational standards, data processing methods and quality control procedures used on this survey see the Report of Survey/Cruise Report and associated documentation where available. The information available may vary depending on the age of the survey. Data are checked and loaded to the BGS Coastal and Marine data management system following BGS marine data management procedures.
Metadata
- File identifier
- abc9f747-5436-0f38-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-09-07
- Metadata standard name
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MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
- Metadata standard version
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Version 2.3.5
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Point of contact