Marine Geotechnical Data from around the UK (1975 Onwards)
The data consist of the results of geotechnical testing carried out at various depth intervals on shallow cores or boreholes collected BGS from the UK Continental Shelf. The bulk of the data north of 56N are in digital form and result from testing carried out on board survey vessels using hand-held test equipment (penetrometers and shear vanes). These values are averaged for each test interval, and are expressed in kiloPascals. There are approximately 6000 test results in the data set. Some more detailed test information, in non-digital and report form is held for selected sites. Also for most sites where digital data is not available, geological descriptions of core material will also contains semi-quantitative information on the stiffness of the material. Geotechnical knowledge is required to understand and interpret the results if they are to be used as a basis for engineering studies. Core material are managed as part of the BGS Materials collection and are available for examination, testing or subsampling. The data are stored as part of the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) and the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) Data Archive Centre (DAC) for Geology and Geophysics. Data are delivered via BGS Offshore GeoIndex www.bgs.ac.uk/GeoIndex/offshore.htm geotechnical layers. Reference: Fannin, NGT. (1989) Offshore Investigations 1966-87. British Geological Survey Technical Report WB/89/2, British Geological Survey.
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- Date (Creation)
- 1975
- Citation identifier
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605644
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Custodian British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Originator British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Owner British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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Geology
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Marine geology
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Marine sediments
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Marine surveys
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Sea floor sediments
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MEDIN
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Core drilling
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Boreholes
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UK Location (INSPIRE)
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Bottom sampling
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Marine geotechnical assessment
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- dataCentre
- Keywords
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NERC_DDC
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- licenceOGL
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- 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.
- Other constraints
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 250000
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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INNER SEAS OFF THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND [id=2001428]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision
- Geographic identifier
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NORTH SEA [id=2001452]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision
- Geographic identifier
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NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W) [id=2001453]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision
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UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
- Begin date
- 1975
- End date
- 1975 After
- Unique resource identifier
- ED50 (EPSG::4230)
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
- Distribution format
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Name Version PDF
CSV
Excel
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.bgs.ac.uk/GeoIndex/offshore.htm Offshore GeoIndex
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.bgs.ac.uk/GeoIndex/offshore.htm Offshore GeoIndex
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/GeoIndex_Offshore/offshore_data/MapServer/WmsServer Offshore Theme
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- Dataset
- Other
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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
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- No
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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- No
- Statement
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Borehole and shallow core material were collected by BGS during offshore surveys using various sampling techniques such as vibrocore, gravity core and wireline drilling. Geotechnical tests were carried out using hand-held test equipment (penetrometers and shear vanes). This dataset has been managed by BGS over a considerable period of time. Legacy paper records have undergone selective scanning and/or transcription to digital formats, with ongoing QC of the information captured and migration to the BGS Database. More recent data is captured digitally and, where appropriate, loaded to the database. Data are stored as part of the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) and information is delivered via the BGS web site.
Metadata
- File identifier
- c35e3405-9dae-6d8b-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-12-07
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Point of contact
- Dataset URI