Date (Creation)

2019-10-24

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607545

Maintenance and update frequency

notPlanned Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
• Groundwater
• Water supply

dataCentre

• data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations

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.

Use constraints

otherRestrictions 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]"

Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Begin date

2010-04-01

End date

2012-03-31

Distribution format

• MS Word ()

• MS Excel ()

OnLine resource

Data

Hierarchy level

nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset

Other

non geographic dataset

Statement

The purpose of this work is to help develop the understanding of the hydrogeological processes and assess the resilience of these important resources to short-term inter-annual variability in the contrasting climates found in West Africa today. This study represents a first step towards quantifying the mean residence times (MRT) of groundwater pumped from unstressed shallow rural groundwater supplies in West Africa, by comparing residence times across regions with contrasting rainfall, while controlling for other important factors such as geology, unsaturated zone thickness, rates of abstraction, borehole construction and surface-water.

File identifier

9645ea18-3fa3-4f03-e054-002128a47908 XML

Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Hierarchy level

nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset

Hierarchy level name

non geographic dataset

Date stamp

2025-06-10

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607545