BIRPS (British Institutes Reflection Profiling Syndicate) Chicxulub seismic data (1996)

BIRPS (the British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate) acquired almost 650 km of offshore seismic data and 300 km of onshore seismic data over the Chicxulub impact crater. The data were recorded to 18 s two-way time.
 
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British Geological Survey. BIRPS (British Institutes Reflection Profiling Syndicate) Chicxulub seismic data (1996). https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c425c9fc-cb6b-352c-e044-0003ba9b0d98
 

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Date ( Creation )
1996
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http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605652

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Geophysics , Marine geology , Geological surveys , Seismic reflection surveys , Geophysical data , Sea floor , Marine geophysics , Marine surveys , Geological data , Seismic surveys , Geology , Geophysical surveys , Seismic data , Marine seismic surveys
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  • NERC_DDC
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250000
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English English
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  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
YUCATAN PENINSULA [id=799700]

 

Date ( Creation )
1979

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Supplemental 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
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

 

Date ( Revision )
2005

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Virtual Seismic Atlas  
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dataset Dataset
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dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
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false

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Pass
false
Statement
The BIRPS seismic experiment used several seismic techniques to better constrain the impact crater size. High-resolution reflection profiles totalling over 639 kilometres imaged the topography of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary within the crater to determine its structure. Deeper targets of this profiling included: mega-terraces and slumped blocks that collapsed into the excavated transient crater, pre-impact layered sedimentary rocks, and structures within the basement that were disrupted by the catastrophic event. Thirty-three deployments of ocean-bottom seismometers and 99 land-based seismic stations recorded the airgun shots used for the marine profiling to produce closely spaced travel-time records

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2020-07-14
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UK GEMINI
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