Scanned images of the BGS borehole records collection.
Scanned images of the records of all onshore Great Britain (or near shore) boreholes, trial pits, shafts and wells held in the BGS archives in either paper, microfilm or digital format. The records range from simple single page lithological logs through to hydrocarbon completion reports. Current collection over 1million records with 50,000 new records added per annum. Scanning started in 2002 and is ongoing with new records being scanned and added to the collection.
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Enquiries (British Geological Survey). Scanned images of the BGS borehole records collection.. https://data-search.nerc.ac.uk:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/9df8df52-d60d-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 |
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- Date ( Creation )
- 2001
Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
EDINBURGH
LOTHIAN
EH14 4AP
United Kingdom
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
EDINBURGH
LOTHIAN
EH14 4AP
United Kingdom
Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
NOTTINGHAM
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
NG12 5GG
United Kingdom
Originator
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
NOTTINGHAM
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
NG12 5GG
United Kingdom
Custodian
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
NOTTINGHAM
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
NG12 5GG
United Kingdom
- Maintenance and update frequency
- continual Continual
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes
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- Geology
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Geology
- Keywords
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- NERC_DDC
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- 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
- Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (ipr@bgs.ac.uk ) for advice, should the position not be clear.
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Denominator
- 10000
- Metadata language
- English English
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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GBN
- Date ( Revision )
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
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GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600]
- Date ( Creation )
- 1979
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- Supplemental Information
- Record data will vary depending on the original purpose. Spatial coverage will vary considerably depending on drilling activity, collecting activity and donations.
- Reference system identifier
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OGP
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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
- Date ( Revision )
- 2005
- Reference system identifier
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OGP
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GEOG
- Date ( Revision )
- 2005
- Distribution format
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- PAPER - Copies will be produced by the most appropriate methods available ()
- DIGITAL ()
- IMAGE FILE ()
Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
EDINBURGH
LOTHIAN
EH14 4AP
United Kingdom
Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
NOTTINGHAM
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
NG12 5GG
United Kingdom
- OnLine resource
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Borehole scans
Further information on the data and information on how this can be obtained, including contact details can be viewed on the page this URL links to.
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Other
- dataset
Conformance result
- Date ( Publication )
- 2011
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- false
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
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- false
- Statement
- Scanned images of all onshore (or near shore) boreholes, trial pits, shafts and wells held in the BGS archives in either paper, microfilm or digital format. Received from a wide variety of external sources.
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- 9df8df52-d60d-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- English English
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2020-08-13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
EDINBURGH
LOTHIAN
EH14 4AP
United Kingdom
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13603034
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