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2005 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA6 Technical Report - Gas related seabed structures of the Western Irish Sea

This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA6) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). This report provides an overview of all the relevant data concerning methane-derived authigenic carbonate (MDAC) and other features associated with shallow gas and seabed fluid flow in the Irish sector of the western Irish Sea. The report complements the MDAC report produced for the SEA6 area by Dr A. G. Judd.

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Date (Publication)
2005-01-01
Identifier
British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_88
Custodian
  British Geological Survey (BGS) - Paul Henni
Murchison House, West Mains Road , Edinburgh , EH9 3LA , UK
+44 (0)131 667 1000
Originator
  Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
Admiralty Way , London , SW1A 2HD , UK
+44 0300 060 4000
+44 (0) 1823 284077
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Name
Documents
Keywords
  • NDGO0001
SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
  • Bathymetry and Elevation
  • Sediment acoustics
  • Seismic reflection
  • Side-scan sonar
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
  • crust
  • sediment
Use limitation
The SEAs data were produced as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme; Crown Copyright, all rights reserved. The DECC SEA must be acknowledged in any maps or publications that make use of the data. All the data files are freely available to the public. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS. BGS (NERC) has been contracted by DECC to publish SEA datasets on its behalf. All intellectual property rights (including , without limitation, copyrights, database rights and all other rights which subsist or may at any time in the future subsist in the Dataset(s)) in the Dataset(s) ('Intellectual Property Rights') are owned by DECC (formerly the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform). BGS has been authorised by DECC to use SEA datasets for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit basis'. BGS has been authorised by DECC to pass on SEA datasets to third parties so that they can use them for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit' basis.
Access constraints
intellectualPropertyRights Intellectual property rights
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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Oceans
Date (Revision)
2006-01-01
Unique resource identifier
Irish Sea
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2005-01-01
End date
2005-01-01
Supplemental Information
http://www.offshore-sea.org.uk/site/index.php
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
OnLine resource
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal

The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS.

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Statement
As part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme the report was prepared by: Petroleum Affairs Division, Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Dublin; Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork; Department of Geology, University College Cork. The report makes use of some previously published data, but mainly analyses the datasets held by the Petroleum Affairs Division of the Irish Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources. Over the last 40 years the IRL-SEA6 area has been surveyed with a range of remote sensing and ground-truthing techniques providing information at various scales of resolution. The main driving factors for these investigations were exploration for hydrocarbons in the Kish Bank and the Central Irish Sea basins, as well as cable and pipeline route surveys. The existing data includes the following: seismic data including conventional seismic and high-resolution seismic (e.g. Sparker, Boomer, GeoChirp, etc.); echosounder; side-scan sonar and multibeam coverage over certain areas; video and photographic imagery of selected parts of the seabed, located based on remotely sensed data; and seabed samples collected with various techniques (e.g. Gravity cores, dredge samples etc.).
File identifier
aba64100-c14c-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2011-08-30
Metadata standard name
MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
Metadata standard version
Version 2.3.5
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey (BGS) - Mary Mowat
+44 (0)131 667 1000
+44 (0)131 668 4140
 
 

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