Date (Creation)

2022-04-19

Citation identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607930

Point of contact

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

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Geothermal energy

• data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)

• Energy

dataCentre

• data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)

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

Other constraints

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

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

Language

English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

AFRICA [id=600000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Begin date

2021-04

End date

2022-03

Unique resource identifier

WGS 84 (EPSG::4979)

Distribution format

Name	Version
Shapefile (.shp)
Layerfile (.lyrx)
Raster (.tif)

Distributor contact

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item173013	Data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.5285/e9ca452b-5cca-4953-b5a4-397c4d622ea5	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

Geo-data was created in a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) project relating to the Energy Transition data across Africa with specific data collected on culture, geological, geophysical and geothermal digitised from a series of internal BGS datasets and open-source publications.

Metadata

File identifier

ddb71dcb-4e9e-2a42-e053-0937940a45cd XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-04-17

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey		enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607930