Marine geophysical and seismic data from around the UK (1966 onwards)

The British Geological Survey hold a collection of data recorded during marine geophysical surveys which includes digital data and analogue records. These data result from approximately 350,000 line kilometres of multi-instrument geophysical survey lines. The dataset includes seismic, sonar, magnetic, gravity, echo sounder, multibeam bathymetry and navigation data. The seismic data are mainly airgun, sparker, boomer and pinger data. Most of the data were collected by BGS, but the collection also includes some third party data. The data are primarily from the UKCS (United Kingdom Continental Shelf). The data are stored within the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) as the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) Data Archive Centre (DAC) for Geology and Geophysics. The majority of legacy geophysical paper records are available as scanned images. Other records can be scanned on request. Older records are of variable quality. Data not yet available online, including digital SEG-Y data, are available on request from enquiries@bgs.ac.uk. The data are applicable to a wide range of uses including environmental, geotechnical, geophysical and geological studies. For more information, refer to Fannin, N. G. T. (1989) Offshore Investigations 1966-87. British Geological Survey Technical Report WB/89/2, British Geological Survey.

Date (Creation): 1966

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605641

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Point of contact

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Maintenance and update frequency: irregular Irregular

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Marine surveys
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Geophysical data
Marine geology
Geology
Absorbents
Marine seismic surveys
Seismic data
MEDIN
Marine geophysics

dataCentre

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: Access constraint: some survey data are commercial-in-confidence and are not provided (http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/LimitationsOnPublicAccess/INSPIRE_Directive_Article13_1d). Use constraint: this dataset is an aggregate of data collected from different offshore surveys (or cruises) which have different use restrictions. Refer to the terms of use provided in the survey metadata for more information (http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/ConditionsApplyingToAccessAndUse/conditionsUnknown).

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]"

Spatial representation type: vector Vector

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

ENGLISH CHANNEL [id=2001401]

Date (Revision): 2010

Geographic identifier

IRISH SEA [id=2001430]

Date (Revision): 2010

Geographic identifier

NORTH SEA [id=2001452]

Date (Revision): 2010

Geographic identifier

NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W) [id=2001453]

Date (Revision): 2010

Geographic identifier

UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]

Date (Creation): 1979

Begin date: 1966

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

Distribution format

SEG-Y file (.sgy, .segy) ()
TIFF image (.tif, .tiff) ()
JPEG2000 image (.jp2) ()
Coda Octopus file (.cod) ()
Extended Triton Format (.xtf) ()

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: GeoIndex Offshore ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
BGS GeoIndex is a web tool for professional users who need to access BGS data as part of their business requirements. The map viewer is free to use and is designed to work on desktop and mobile devices.

OnLine resource: GeoIndex_Offshore_offshore_data ( OGC:WMS )
One or more layers for the dataset is provided through this OGC WMS (view) service. This URL is the service end-point and is intended for consumption by software clients that understand the WMS API.

OnLine resource: British Geological Survey (BGS) GeoIndex - Offshore Cultural data theme ( OGC:WMS )
One or more layers for the dataset is provided through this OGC WMS (view) service. This URL is the service end-point and is intended for consumption by software clients that understand the WMS API.

Hierarchy level: 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: Data were collected during marine geophysical surveys. A variety of types of data (types of geophysical survey equipment) are available, including airgun, sparker, boomer, pinger, gravimeter, magnetometer, sidescan sonar and multibeam echosounder data. This dataset has been managed by BGS over a considerable period of time. Legacy paper records from earlier surveys were scanned and some have been transcribed to digital formats, with QC of the information captured and addition to the BGS database. Some hard-copy records have not yet been scanned. More recent data are captured digitally and loaded directly into the BGS database.