Long-period magnetotelluric time series at 9 sites in Scotland, UK

Time series of long-period magnetotelluric data collected between October 2023 and March 2024 at 9 sites in Scotland, UK, as part of the NERC projects NE/S007407/1 and NE/V002694/1. The data consist of measurements of the Earth’s natural electric and magnetic field variations in five channels and with a 1-sec sampling rate. There is a text file with the site coordinates, a single PDF file containing all relevant metadata, and individual ASCII files for each site named by the site ID.

Date (Creation): 2025-04-09

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608402

Originator

University of Edinburgh - Aideliz Montiel-Alvarez

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British Geological Survey - Enquiries

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Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Electrical field
NGDC Deposited Data
Magnetic fields
Magnetotelluric surveys

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NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

SCOTLAND [id=140000]

Date (Creation): 1979

Geographic identifier

SCT

Date (Revision): 2009

Begin date: 2023-10-25

End date: 2024-03-28

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

Text Document (.txt) ()
PDF File (.pdf) ()
XYZ File (.xyz) ()

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

OnLine resource: Data

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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 data consist of measurements of the Earth’s natural electric and magnetic field variations. At each site, five channels were recorded with a 1-sec sampling rate: The magnetic field components (Bx: north-south, By: east-west, and Bz: vertical) were measured using a fluxgate magnetometer manufactured from Lemi, Lviv, Ukraine. The horizontal electric field (Ex: north-south, and Ey: east-west) was recorded using non-polarizable electrodes. The installations were performed following the manufacturer's guidelines and best practices.