Identification info

Metadata Language

English (en)

Dataset Reference Date ()

2022-08

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607968

Maintenance and update frequency

notPlanned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Geomorphology
• Mapping
• Bed rock
• Sea floor
• Structural geology
• Surficial geology
• Geology

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Limitations on Public Access

otherRestrictions

Other constraints

licenceOGL

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Use constraints

otherRestrictions

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

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Extent

IRISH SEA [id=2001430]

Dataset Reference Date ()

2010

N

S

E

W

End date

2022-08

Distribution Information

Data format

• ESRI Shapefiles ()

Quality Scope

dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

The delineation and classification of the geological substrate units were based primarily on what can be observed and interpreted from the multibeam echo-sounder (MBES) bathymetry data collected during the Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP) surveys managed by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and a candidate Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) survey for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The two survey areas mapped were: • HI1420 – Off Skerries TSS Blk A-E 4m SB (2013) • 118503 North St Georges Channel MCZ 4m SB (2012) MBES backscatter, physical samples (e.g. grabs, cores, and boreholes) and previous geological mapping were also used to further inform the geological interpretation. The geological interpretation was undertaken in 2020-2021, by A. Finlayson, E. Phillips, R. Kendall, G. Carter and J. Everest in an ESRI ArcGIS project using the BGS SIGMA Desktop application. The geological linework was captured at a scale ranging from 1:5000 to 1:7000, to ensure smooth linework when the dataset is viewed at a scale of 1:10000. Bedrock and superficial deposits were mapped into two independent SIGMA layers and later merged to create the Seabed Substrate layer included in this dataset. Additional attribute fields were added to the layers, in particular to the geomorphology, to complement the information captured automatically by the SIGMA. The methodology used is described in more detail in the user guide for this dataset OR/22/059.

Metadata

File identifier

e7aee2db-79aa-2244-e053-0937940a6829 XML

Metadata Language

English (en)

Resource type

dataset

Metadata Date

2023-06-27

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3