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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- Date (Creation)
- 1992
- Citation identifier
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605651
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Natural Enironmental Research Council
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Owner British Geological Survey
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Distributor British Geological Survey
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Point of contact British Geological Survey
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Custodian British Geological Survey
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- Not planned
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Geophysics
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Marine geophysics
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Marine geology
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Geophysical data
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Marine surveys
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Geological surveys
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Sea floor
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Seismic data
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Seismic reflection surveys
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Geological data
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data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
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Geophysical surveys
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Geology
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Marine seismic surveys
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Seismic surveys
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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.
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- 250000
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- English
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- Geoscientific information
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BANDA SEA [id=2001367]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision
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Darwin [id=2000071]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Map sheets 1950 revision
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TIMOR [id=566000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
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- Begin date
- 1992-02-05
- End date
- 1993-03
- Supplemental Information
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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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- WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
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Name Version SEG Y
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
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Protocol Linkage Name http://see-atlas.leeds.ac.uk:8080/search/advancedSearch.jsp?N=0&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode+matchall&Nty=1&Ntt=BIRPS Virtual Seismic Atlas
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
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- 2011
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See the referenced specification
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- No
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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
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- 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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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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- c425c9fc-cb6a-352c-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- English
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-02-08
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
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