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BIRPS (British Institutes Reflection Profiling Syndicate) Banda seismic data (1992-1993)

In 1992, BIRPS joined with the Indonesian Marine Geological Institute to record two long multichannel normal-incidence reflection profiles, one of which is DAMAR, the other TIMOR, and one short profile (API) close to the volcano Gunung Api. The survey provides a modern analogue to tectonics hypothesized to have occurred across the Iapetus suture zone of northern England 450-400 Ma. The Banda Arc of Indonesia near the island of Timor is widely recognized as the premier example of the active subduction of continental crust and lithosphere beneath oceanic lithosphere. The crossing of a modern island arc and close passage to active volcanoes was intended to image reflections associated with magma in the crust and uppermost mantle.

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Metadata Language
English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
1992
Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605651

 

Natural Enironmental Research Council


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British Geological Survey

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The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South

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EDINBURGH

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LOTHIAN

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EH14 4AP

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United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
 

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United Kingdom

 

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Marine geophysics

  • Geophysics

  • Marine geology

  • Geophysical data

  • Marine surveys

  • Seismic data

  • Seismic reflection surveys

  • Sea floor

  • Geological surveys

  • Geological data

  • Geophysical surveys

  • Seismic surveys

  • Marine seismic surveys

  • Geology

Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

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The copyright of this data is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. Permission is granted for use of these data for research purposes, but no part of these data may be commercially sold, used to provide a value added commercial product nor form part of a commercial data package. Any commercial use of products derived from these data requires prior written permission of the copyright holder. NERC gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the data, or to the material's suitability for any use. NERC accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurrence. The data have been vetted for compliance with relevant standards. NERC accepts no responsibility for maintenance nor technical support. The following acknowledgement must accompany the reproduced NERC materials "Contains Natural Environment Research Council materials ©NERC [year]"
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Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear. ipr@bgs.ac Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Spatial representation type
vector
Denominator
250000
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Extent

BANDA SEA [id=2001367]

Dataset Reference Date ()
2010

Extent

Darwin [id=2000071]

Dataset Reference Date ()
1950

Extent

TIMOR [id=566000]

Dataset Reference Date ()
1979

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Begin date
1992-02-05
End date
1993-03
Additional information

The following links provide more details regarding the surveys undertaken by BIRPS, some of its history and publications: http://www.earthscrust.org.au/science/startups/birps-su.html; http://bullard.esc.cam.ac.uk/~birps/; SNYDER, D. & HOBBS, R. 1991. The BIRPS Atlas: Deep Seismic Reflection Profiles Around the British Isles. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wO2LMRXAbSkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0521418283; SNYDER, D. & HOBBS, R. 1999. The BIRPS Atlas II. A Second Decade of Deep Seismic Reflection Profiling. http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/MPB42; All the final stack BIRPS data are on the Virtual Seismic Atlas hosted by Leeds University. The following link lists all the BIRPS profiles ever acquired http://see-atlas.leeds.ac.uk:8080/search/advancedSearch.jsp?N=0&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode+matchall&Nty=1&Ntt=BIRPS

 

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Distribution Information

Data format
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Resource Locator
Virtual Seismic Atlas
Resource Locator
Virtual Seismic Atlas
 
Quality Scope
dataset
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dataset

Report

Dataset Reference Date ()
2011
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Degree

Report

Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Degree
Statement

Deep multichannel seismic data were acquired and processed. M/V GECO-kappa survey ship was used towing 92-channel hydrophone streamer. An airgun array of 7324 cubic inches was 70 m wide producing 97 bar peak-to-peak pressure at frequencies of 3-62.5 Hz. DAMAR was shot at 100 m intervals to a recording time of 37 s in total. The TIMOR provided redundancy and higher spatial resolution near Timor, and used a 50m shot interval to record 17±24 s records. This second profile was effectively continued to the Australian coast when the Australian Geological Survey Organisation collected a series of 16 s profiles on their continental shelf the next year. Line 12 of this survey was reprocessed using the same parameters used to process TIMOR and provides an example of lithospheric reflectivity from an Archaean shield margin that has undergone extension.

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Metadata Language
English (en)
Resource type
dataset
Metadata Date
2023-03-27
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

 

British Geological Survey


The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South

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EDINBURGH

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LOTHIAN

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EH14 4AP

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United Kingdom

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