Legacy BGS geothermal models: temperature at the base Sherwood Sandstone Group in the Permo-Triassic Cheshire, Worcester, Wessex and East Yorkshire-Lincolnshire basins (hot sedimentary aquifer resources)

This vector contour dataset represents the calculated temperature distribution (°C) at the base of the Sherwood Sandstone Group (SSG) in the main Permo-Triassic Cheshire, Wessex and Worcester basins and the intra-SSG temperature in the East Yorkshire-Lincolnshire Basin, considered for their hot sedimentary aquifer geothermal resource potential. The extent of the temperature maps corresponds to the extent of the modelled base SSG in each basin. The maps and are based on temperature data from the latest revision of the UK Geothermal Catalogue (1987) compiled during the 1977-1991 Geothermal Energy Programme. For all basins taken together, the temperature ranges between 5.3 °C to 103.7 °C, with the highest temperatures found at depth in the Wessex Basin. The dataset is used as a basis for the determination of the heat resource potential of the Triassic hot sedimentary aquifers in the UK (heat-in-place and heat recoverable). This dataset is derived from Rollin, K. E., G. A. Kirby, and W. J. Rowley. Atlas of geothermal resources in Europe: UK revision. British Geological Survey technical report WK/95/7, Regional Geophysics Group, 1995: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/publications/publication.html?id=21735106 and the European Geothermal Atlas (https://op.europa.eu/publication-detail/-/publication/9003d463-03ed-4b0e-87e8-61325a2d4456).

Date (Publication): 1995

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608350

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

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British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Maintenance and update frequency: notPlanned Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Aquifers
Geothermal energy
Sandstone reservoirs
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Triassic
Temperature

dataCentre

UK Location (INSPIRE)

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Other constraints: The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.

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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]"

Other constraints: The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section (iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk ) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.

Spatial representation type: vector Vector

Distance: 100 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

Cheshire Basin [id=1000427]

Date (Creation): 2005

Geographic identifier

EAST YORKSHIRE & LINCOLNSHIRE [id=156000]

Date (Creation): 1979

Geographic identifier

Wessex Basin [id=1000328]

Date (Creation): 2005

Geographic identifier

Worcestershire County [id=2993]

Date (Revision): 2009

Begin date: 1978

End date: 2025

Unique resource identifier: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Distribution format

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

OnLine resource: UK Geothermal Platform Web Map ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
An interactive Web map for exploring geothermal energy potential, assessing constraints, and making informed exploration decisions.

OnLine resource: UK Geothermal Platform ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
An online platform for exploring geothermal energy potential, assessing constraints, and making informed exploration decisions.

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Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

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: No

Statement: These temperature maps were compiled by BGS using data created and published by Rollin, K. E., G. A. Kirby, and W. J. Rowley. Atlas of geothermal resources in Europe: UK revision. British Geological Survey technical report WK/95/7, Regional Geophysics Group, 1995: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/publications/publication.html?id=21735106. Those were based on data compiled in the latest version of the UK Geothermal Catalogue, UKGC (1987) during the 1977-1991 Geothermal Energy Programme, delivered by BGS and funded by UK Department of Energy (and both its antecedents and successors), and the European Commission. Most of the temperature measurements consist of equilibrium temperatures and bottom hole temperatures (BHTs) corrected for the time since circulation using the Horner (HOR) method (Horner, 1951). For the Eastern England Basin, the temperature field for the Sherwood Sandstone Group was directly derived from available temperature data from about 250 wells compiled in the UKGC 1987. The temperature maps were interpolated and gridded using the ISM (Interactive Surface Modeling) package. For all the other basins, a model of the subsurface temperature was derived by convolution of the observed heat flow field with the geological/structural model of the basin and the thermal conductivity structure, using the UKGC thermal conductivity database, and assuming one-dimensional steady-state conductive heat transfer with heat production. The maps for each basin were vectorised and merged into a single layer as part of the 2025 UK Geothermal Platform project.