BGS Metadata Catalogue
British Geological Survey (BGS) Geophysical Survey 1970/3: Moray Firth and East and south of Orkney (23/05/1970 to 17/06/1970)
Report: Sunderland, J, and Tully, M. 1970. Cruise Report for MV Surveyor. MGU Project 70/03. (IGS Report No 9) Positioning: Main Chain Decca using Decca Type 1844 Type receiver. Coastline corrections were applied to reduce fixed errors when within 0.5 Nm of the coast. Echo Sounding: Kelvin Hughes MS 32 Sonar Systems: EG&G side-scan sonar. Kelvin Hughes Transit sonar also used. Seismic Systems: Sparker System: EG&G sparker system with 263b hydrophone streamer. Most lines run at 1kJ Gravitymeter: LaCoste and Romberg Air Sea gravity meter. Magnetometer: RVU Barringer magnetometer
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 1970-06-17
- Citation identifier
- British Geological Survey / BGS_CMD_REF24
- 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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Tay-Forth
BGS Gazetteer 2024-12-06 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Great Glen
BGS Gazetteer 2024-12-06 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Moray-Buchan
BGS Gazetteer 2024-12-06 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Peterhead
BGS Gazetteer 2024-12-06 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Sutherland
BGS Gazetteer 2024-12-06 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Caithness
BGS Gazetteer 2024-12-06 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Bosies Bank
BGS Gazetteer 2024-12-06 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Orkney
BGS Gazetteer 2024-12-06 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Fair Isle
BGS Gazetteer 2024-12-06 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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Scottish Continental Shelf
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
- Geographic identifier
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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
- 1970-05-23
- End date
- 1970-06-17
- 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=1970/3 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, Gravimeter, Magnetometer, Sidescan Sonar, 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
- abc9f747-5476-0f38-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-12-06
- 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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