BGS Metadata Catalogue
British Geological Survey (BGS) Geophysical Survey 1966/3: Moray Firth (08/10/1966 to 14/11/1966)
This marine geophysical survey was carried out by Hunting Geology and Geophysics Ltd for Institute of Geological Sciences now British Geological Survey (BGS), the survey took place from October to November 1966 in the Moray Firth on board the MV Rosherville. The purpose was to collect data for regional marine survey linking the coastal geology with offshore structures, test equipment and techniques and train personnel. This project constituted the initial steps of the Institute of Geological Sciences (now BGS) regional marine survey of eastern Scottish waters. At the end of the geophysical survey two days of sampling equipment trials were undertaken. Sea floor data were collected using echosounder. Sub-surface data were collected using boomer; proton magnetometer. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in IGS report 70/1.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 1966-11-14
- Citation identifier
- British Geological Survey / BGS_CMD_REF2
- 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 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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Great Glen
BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-07 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Moray-Buchan
BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-07 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Caithness
BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-07 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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NORTH SEA
The SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer: Sub-Ocean Category 1954-01-01 creation
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- Begin date
- 1966-10-08
- End date
- 1966-11-14
- 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=1966/3 BGS Offshore Geoindex
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of unknown theme
- 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, Magnetometer and Surface Tow Boomer. Hunting Geology & Geophysics was contracted to undertake the survey on behalf of British Geological Survey. Information for this survey is sourced from IGS report 70/1. Vessel – modified Port of London Authority workship. Navigation - Decca MK 12 receiver using North Scottish Decca navigation chain. Sampling equipment trials of UMEL corer and shipek grab were conducted, excellent results with grab except on cobble gravel. E.G. and G. boomer system operated at 1000 Joule and fired every 1.5 seconds. Seismic signals were filtered by a 200-800Hz band-pass filter and processed and printed on E.G. and G. Type 254 recorder. Elsec proton magnetometer achieved acceptable performance. Echo-sounder – Bludsworth P.D.R and a Kelvin Hughes M.S.26 in the later part of the survey. The depths were subsequently corrected for tidal variations, adjusted to O.D. Newlyn. Total of 648.6km traversed. Surveys were made at 5 to 6 knots. Much of the survey was carried out in poor weather. For more detailed information see the Cruise Report.
Metadata
- File identifier
- abc9f747-5465-0f38-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-07
- 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
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