Legacy BGS geothermal models: depth to the top early Carboniferous limestone (hot sedimentary aquifers) in northern and southern England
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- Date (Publication)
- 2023
0115 936 3276
0115 936 3276
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- UK Location (INSPIRE)
- Aquifers
- Carboniferous
- Limestone
- Basement depth
- Geothermal energy
- dataCentre
- Keywords
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- 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]"
- 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
- grid Grid
- Distance
- 2500 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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NORTHERN ENGLAND [id=151000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
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SOUTHERN ENGLAND [id=158800]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Begin date
- 2022
- End date
- 2025
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- -6700.0000
- Maximum value
- 400.0000
Vertical datum
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
- Distribution format
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0115 936 3276
- OnLine resource
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UK Geothermal Platform Web Map
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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An interactive Web map for exploring geothermal energy potential, assessing constraints, and making informed exploration decisions.
- OnLine resource
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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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- dataset Dataset
- Other
- dataset
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
- The study was conducted to assess the geothermal potential of the early Carboniferous limestone (ECL) in Great Britain and is published in D J.R. Jones, T. Randles, T. Kearsey, T.C. Pharaoh, A. Newell (2023). Deep geothermal resource assessment of early Carboniferous limestones for Central and Southern Great Britain, Geothermics, 109, 102649, ISNN 0375-6505, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102649. Two geological models were created for the northern and southern ECL provinces using borehole horizon markers, depth converted seismic picks and polygons defining erosional limits of formations and outcrop from BGS surface mapping using SKUA-GOCAD. An implicit geological modelling method was used, where all the geological units were modelled simultaneously using all the available data held and interpolated within a 3D framework. The gridded geological model was attributed with appropriate bulk density values based on average values that are known from the two areas (Rollin, 1987). These were mapped to the 3D grid using a combination of lithostratigraphic unit and any internal lithological variation that had been modelled. The geological grids were then converted to regular raster grids with a 2500 m x 2500 m horizontal resolution and 50 m vertical resolution to be imported into the volumetric 'heat in place' (HIP) calculator.
- File identifier
- 2f98f2ff-2ede-37b7-e063-0937940a4ed0 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608359
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