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East African Rift Temperature and Heatflow model (EARTH)

Publisher
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
6 August 2026
Topic
Not set
Licence
Not set

Summary

A geographic information system (GIS) heat flow and temperature model of East Africa created by extracting data from open sources into a series of shapefiles and rasters containing information on geothermal sites, hot spring locations, digital elevation model, surface temperature, geothermal gradients, thermal conductivities and heat flow data, major faults, surface geology, crustal basement, electrification grid system and population density across East Africa. This data is stored in the World Geodetic System (WGS) 1984 Geographic Projection System.

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East African Rift Temperature and Heatflow model (EARTH) 6/8/2026

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
06 August 2026
Harvest GUID
9ed81520-0453-65a8-e054-002128a47908
Extent (Latitude)
17.9900° to -18.0500°
Extent (Longitude)
21.9700° to 47.9600°
Dataset reference date (creation)
2020-02-14
Frequency of update
unknown
Access 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.
Responsible party
British Geological Survey (distributor, pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng