Date (Creation)

2021-01-22

Citation identifier

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

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Edinburgh	Whaler, Kathy	kathy.whaler@ed.ac.uk	Originator
University of Edinburgh	Whaler, Kathy	kathy.whaler@ed.ac.uk	Principal investigator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Rift zone

• NGDC Deposited Data

• Magnetotelluric surveys

• Rift faults

dataCentre

• NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

Other restrictions

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

Other restrictions

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

Language

English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

Afar Rift [id=985003]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier

ET

ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision

Geographic identifier

ETH

ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

Geographic identifier

ETHIOPIA [id=692000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Begin date

2008-01-01

End date

2010-03-31

Unique resource identifier

WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

Name	Version
MT timeseries: original raw binary in system specific format (SPAM Mk III and SPAM Mk IV) with files to convert to ascii
Transfer functions: plain text
TEM data: plain text

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item161826	Data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.5285/c9ec9000-bc46-450e-a8bc-5c35cfdf6703	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level

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

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-04-20

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey		enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Dataset URI

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