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Gro for GooD ERT (Electrical Resistivity Tomography) Data, Kwale County, Kenya (NERC grant NE/M008894/1)

Results of Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) conducted in Kwale County, Kenya December 2015 and June 2016 by University of Nairobi and Water Resources Management Authority as part of the Gro for GooD project (https://upgro.org/consortium/gro-for-good/) to characterize the aquifers in the study area. There were eight transects of length 1.2 to 6km, running W-E and NNE-SSW parallel to coastline. ERT data was analysed using RES2D inversion software. Gro for GooD - Groundwater Risk Management for Growth and Development

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Date (Creation)
2018-08-20
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607376
Principal investigator
  University of Oxford - Dr R A Hope ( School of Geography and the Environment )
Oxford , OX1 3QY ,
Point of contact
  University of Oxford - Nancy Gladstone ( Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment )
Oxford , OX1 3QY ,
Originator
  Rural Focus Ltd - Calvince Wara
P.O. Box 1011-10400 , Nanyuki , Kenya
Originator
  Rural Focus Ltd - Mike Thomas
P.O. Box 1011-10400 , Nanyuki , Kenya
Originator
  Water Resources Management Authority - David Shokut
Kenya
Originator
  University of Nairobi - Dan Olago ( Department of Geology )
Nairobi , Kenya
Originator
  University of Nairobi - Julius Odida
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maintenance and update frequency
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Geology
  • Hydrogeology
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • Geophysics
  • Tomography
dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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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.
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
KE

Date (Revision)
2009

Geographic identifier
KEN

Date (Revision)
2009

Geographic identifier
KENYA [id=687000]

Date (Creation)
1979

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Begin date
2015-12-01
End date
2016-05-31
Supplemental Information
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of Kenya’s Water Resources Authority (formerly WRMA), the Kwale Country Government, Base Titanium Ltd., Kwale International Sugar Company Ltd., Rural Focus Ltd., and University of Nairobi who assisted in or enabled the surveys in one way or another. This research was funded by the UK Government via NERC, ESRC and DFID as part of the Gro for GooD project (UPGro Consortium Grant: NE/M008894/1).
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 / UTM zone 37S (EPSG::32737)
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Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
OnLine resource
Data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
OnLine resource
http://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/853667/
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dataset Dataset
Other
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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
2-D electrical imaging/tomography survey equipment was used (Telford, 1990, Griffiths and Barker 1993). For history of ERT see Parasin, 1962. Field set of the tomography system used here included ABEM SAS 1000 Terrameter, LUND ES464 switchbox (electronic switching unit), four multi-core cables each with 21 current take out points at constant spacing of 10 metres interval, battery, communications cables, electrode jumpers, electrodes, laptop and data transfer cables. This dedicated equipment measures both ?V and I and presents a calculated apparent resistivity. The profile length was 800m and the investigated depth was 149m bgl. Roll-along technique was used. After completion of measurements, the cable was moved past one end of the line by two cables. Measurements which involved electrodes on one part of the cable which did not overlap the original end of the survey line were repeated.
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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
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dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-12-11
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607376
 
 

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