Deep geothermal potential areas in the UK, version 2

This dataset shows polygons where there is favourable geology for deep geothermal exploration in the UK and for the sedimentary basins, the areas have been considered in more detailed geothermal studies. Known areas of sedimentary basins or productive aquifers have been excluded, where they have not yet been evaluated for geothermal potential at any level of detail. The areas included are the whole sedimentary basin extents, or extents of granitic intrusions, as opposed to the smaller areas with heat-in-place or proved, recoverable resources over certain temperatures and depths. Coordinate Reference System is British National Grid. Northern Ireland data is also presented in British National Grid because of the UK extent of the information. Additional columns are as required to be supplied for inclusion in the GSEU project (https://www.geologicalservice.eu/). These include a ‘Geothermal Play Code’, ‘Geothermal Play Type’ ‘Plate Tectonic Setting’ ‘Geologic Habitat’ and ‘Geological Controls’ fields following the classification scheme of Moeck, I. S. (2014, Catalog of geothermal play types based on geologic controls. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 37, 867-882). Additional fields have been added for BGS for classification, colouring up.

Date (Creation): 2024-07-12

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608258

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Limestone
Granite
Scottish SDI
Geothermal maps
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Geothermal surveys
Sandstone

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Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Spatial representation type: vector Vector

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

Date (Revision): 2009

Geographic identifier

UK [id=139300]

Date (Creation): 1979

Geographic identifier

UKM

Date (Revision): 2009

Begin date: 1987-01-01

End date: 2024-03-31

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

Distribution format

Microsoft Word document (.docx, .doc) ()
ESRI Shapefile (.shp) ()

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: Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

OnLine resource: Data

OnLine resource: Deep Geothermal Areas ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities )
This shapefile shows polygons where there is favourable geology for deep geothermal exploration in the UK and for the sedimentary basins, the areas have been considered in more detailed geothermal studies. Known areas of sedimentary basins or productive aquifers have been excluded, where they have not yet been evaluated for geothermal potential at any level of detail. The areas included are the whole sedimentary basin extents, or extents of granitic intrusions, as opposed to the smaller areas with heat-in-place or proved, recoverable resources over certain temperatures and depths. Coordinate Reference System is British National Grid. Northern Ireland data is also presented in British National Grid because of the UK extent of the information. Additional columns are as required to be supplied for inclusion in the GSEU project (https://www.geologicalservice.eu/). These include a ‘Geothermal Play Code’, ‘Geothermal Play Type’ ‘Plate Tectonic Setting’ ‘Geologic Habitat’ and ‘Geological C...

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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: Polygons were created by BGS using information from the following sources: Rollin, K. E., G. A. Kirby, and W. J. Rowley. Atlas of geothermal resources in Europe: UK revision. British Geological Survey, Regional Geophysics Group, 1995. Busby 2013 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-013-1054-4. BGS Bedrock Geology 625K V5, BGS Bedrock Geology 50K V8. BGS Tectonic Map of Britain, Ireland and adjacent areas. 1:1,500,00 series 1996. Raine and Reay, 2021 https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531393/ . Kearsey et al. 2024 Midland Valley of Scotland geothermal aquifer modelling study. Newell, A. 2023 https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536918/. Jones et al. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102649 . High heat producing granites names also used McCay and Younger 2017 (https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2016-008; Gillespie et al. 2013.