Marine Aggregate Sustainability Fund (MALSF) Geology and Geophysics Survey Data (2003 to 2010)

The Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (MALSF) commissioned a series of Regional Environmental Characterisation (REC) surveys via the Marine Environment Protection Fund (MEPF) to develop understanding of submerged habitats and heritage in Britain. The aim was to acquire high quality data to enable broad scale characterisation of the seabed habitats, their biological communities and potential historic environment assets. The surveys were conducted in the following areas - Outer Bristol Chanel (2003 – 2005), Eastern English Channel (2005 – 2006), South Coast (2007 - 2010), Outer Thames (2007), East Coast (2008 - 2009), Humber (2008 - 2009). The Geology and Geophysics component of the data are archived by British Geological Survey (BGS) in the Marine Environmental data and Information Network (MEDIN) Data Archive Centre (DAC) for Geology and Geophysics. The data includes bathymetry, sidescan sonar, sub-bottom profiler, magnetometer, seabed video and photographs, Particle Size Analysis (PSA) data, vibrocore (logs and images). Data are delivered via the BGS Offshore GeoIndex www.bgs.ac.uk/GeoIndex/offshore.htm. Additional data are available on request enquiries@bgs.ac.uk. Other data types have been archived with the other MEDIN DACs as appropriate (UKHO DAC for bathymetry data and DASSH DAC for biological data). The MALSF ceased operation at the end of March 2011 ( http://www.marinealsf.org.uk/).

Date (Creation): 2003

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605658

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Marine Environment Protection Fund		not available	Originator
Marine Aggregate Sustainability Fund		not available	Owner
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Custodian
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Geological surveys
Geophysical data
Marine geology
Marine geophysics
Marine seismic surveys
Geology
Geophysics
Geophysical surveys
Magnetic data
Sampling
Bathymetry
Sea floor
Core drilling
Gravity surveys
Magnetic surveys
Seismic surveys
Geological data
Gravity data
Marine gravity surveys
Marine magnetic surveys
Marine surveys
Seismic data
Seismic reflection surveys
MEDIN
UK Location (INSPIRE)

dataCentre

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

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Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Denominator: 50000

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: BRISTOL CHANNEL [id=2001350]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier: CELTIC SEA [id=2001353]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier: DOVER STRAIT [id=2001363]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier: ENGLISH CHANNEL [id=2001401]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier: NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN [id=2002262]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier: NORTH SEA [id=2001452]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier: NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W) [id=2001453]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Geographic identifier: NORTHWEST EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121700]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier: UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Begin date: 2003

End date: 2010

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

Name	Version
Varies by survey depending on data type. Standard data exchange formats are used.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.bgs.ac.uk/GeoIndex/offshore.htm	Offshore GeoIndex

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/GeoIndex_Offshore/offshore_data/MapServer/WmsServer	Offshore Theme

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: 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

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

Pass: No

Statement: The Regional Environmental Characterisations (RECs) were conducted by various organisations in the following areas - South Coast (2007 - 2010) Outer Thames (2007-2009) East Coast (2008 - 2011) Humber (2008 - 2011). A number of surveys were conducted for each REC project for biological, geological, sediment characterization. Data, collected using various techniques, was interpreted and final reports and seabed maps produced (available at www.marinealsf.org.uk). Data were provided to the MEDIN Data Archive Centres including BGS, DASSH and UKHO for long term archiving and are available from these.