Identification info

Metadata Language

English (en)

Dataset Reference Date ()

2021-01-22

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607705

Maintenance and update frequency

notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Rift zone

• Rift faults

• Magnetotelluric surveys

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Limitations on Public Access

otherRestrictions

Other constraints

licenceOGL

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Use constraints

otherRestrictions

Other constraints

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.

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Spatial representation type

grid

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Extent

Afar Rift [id=985003]

Dataset Reference Date ()

1979

Extent

ET

Dataset Reference Date ()

2009

Extent

ETH

Dataset Reference Date ()

2009

Extent

ETHIOPIA [id=692000]

Dataset Reference Date ()

1979

Begin date

2008-01-01

End date

2010-03-31

 

Distribution Information

Data format

• MT timeseries: original raw binary in system specific format (SPAM Mk III and SPAM Mk IV) with files to convert to ascii

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• Transfer functions: plain text

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• TEM data: plain text

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Quality Scope

dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

Magnetotelluric (MT) and Transient electromagnetic (TEM) data. The following associated publications may have more lineage details: Johnson, N. E., Whaler, K. A., Hautot, S., Fisseha, S., Desissa, M., & Dawes, G. J. K. (2015). Magma imaged magnetotellurically beneath an active and an inactive magmatic segment in Afar, Ethiopia. In T. Wright, A. Ayele, D. Ferguson, T. Kidane, & C. Vye-Brown (Eds.), Magmatic rifting and active volcanism (Vol. 420, pp. 105–125). Geological Society, London, Special Publications. Desissa, M, Johnson, N E, Whaler, K A et al., 2013. A mantle magma reservoir beneath an incipient mid-ocean ridge in Afar, Ethiopia, Nature Geoscience, 6, 861-865, doi: 10.1038/ngeo1925 Medynski, S, Pik, R, Burnard, P, Vye-Brown, C, France, L, Schimmelpfennig, I, Whaler, K, Johnson, N, Benedetti, L, Ayelew, D and Yirgu, G, 2015, Stability of rift axis magma reservoirs: spatial and temporal evolution of magma supply in the Dabbahu rift segment (Afar, Ethiopia) over the past 30 kyr, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 409, 278-289, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.11.002 Ebinger, C J, Keir, D, Bastow, I D, Whaler, K A, Hammond, J O S, Ayele, A, Miller, M S, Tiberi, C and Hautot, S, 2017. Crustal structure of active deformation zones in Africa: Implications for global crustal processes, Tectonics, 36, 3298–3332, doi: 10.1002/2017TC004526

Metadata

File identifier

ba5a64cb-e005-5cf5-e054-002128a47908 XML

Metadata Language

English (en)

Resource type

dataset

Metadata Date

2023-05-24

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3