Regional gravity survey records of onshore and nearshore United Kingdom
Field notebooks,maps, field sheets etc for Regional gravity observations on the UK mainland, Northern Ireland, offshore islands, tidal estuaries and seabed. Most of the surveys were carried out by the BGS but the database includes data originally acquired by other organisations and subsequently given to the BGS to be managed as part of the national archive. Complete coverage of the UK mainland with a station density of 1-2 stations per square kilometre.
dataset
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http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480452
eng
Dataset updated as data becomes available. Child of Regional Gravity Surveys Of Onshore And Nearshore United Kingdom. Bounding rectangle approx 50% covered (mainly land areas). Average station density of 1-2 per square kilometre onshore; sparser sea bottom stations in the Irish Sea and Firth of Clyde. Data quality largely consistent, terrain corrections applied only in hilly arees.
geoscientificInformation
publication
2008-06-01
Geophysical surveys
Gravity
Gravity surveys
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Geophysics
Geology
revision
2022
NERC_DDC
-8.0000
2.0000
61.0000
49.5000
revision
2009
GB
creation
1979
UK [id=139300]
revision
2009
UKM
1948
creation
1948
irregular
Data predominantly acquired by BGS but other data from commercial and academic organisations
publication
2011
false
See the referenced specification
publication
2010-12-08
false
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
OTHER, UNKNOWN OR OBSCURE - Gridded data
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British Geological Survey
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United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
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2024-04-18