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2005 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA6 Technical Report - Geology. Irish Sea, seabed and surficial geology and processes
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 discusses the seabed geology and the surficial geology and processes of the SEA6 region of the Irish Sea. The East Irish Sea Basin is at a mature exploration phase, having produced oil and predominantly gas since 1985. The hydrocarbon geology of the region is reviewed. Other prospectivity plays in the SEA6 area are the Caernarfon Bay Basin and the Cardigan Bay Basin. The seabed sediments, seabed sedimentary processes and the corresponding diverse range of seabed habitats in the area are described, drawing upon published data and on the new information acquired from surveys specifically conducted for this SEA in 2004.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2005-05-01
- Identifier
- British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_89
Custodian
British Geological Survey (BGS)
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Paul Henni
Murchison House, West Mains Road
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Edinburgh
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EH9 3LA
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UK
+44 (0)131 667 1000
Originator
Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
+44 (0) 1823 284077
Admiralty Way
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London
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SW1A 2HD
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UK
+44 0300 060 4000
+44 (0) 1823 284077
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- Name
- Documents
- Keywords
- SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Geology
- SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
- 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
- Distance
- 5 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Oceans
- Date (Revision)
- 2006-01-01
- Unique resource identifier
- Irish Sea
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- Begin date
- 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
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- OnLine resource
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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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- dataset Dataset
- Statement
- The report was prepared by the British Geological Survey as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. The report data have been compiled and presented in the figures using the Arc9 geographical information system (GIS) based on spheroid and datum WGS 84, UTM zone 30 projection and origin 3 degrees west. The data incorporated into the BGS series of published 1:250,000 maps provide much of the seabed information presented in the GIS. This report also incorporates the data generated from the new seabed surveys completed in August 2004 during Survey Vessel Meridian Cruise A.
- File identifier
- aba64100-c14d-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
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