20230815 10322700 1.0 TRUE ISO19139 150000000 5000 1d5b8cc7-c9b8-62b2-e063-0937940a50b8 British Geological Survey +44 131 667 1000 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP GB enquiries@bgs.ac.uk 20250624 ArcGIS Metadata 1.0 GIS shapefile and layer file MS Word Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP GB enquiries@bgs.ac.uk https://doi.org/10.5285/f99a6179-0040-443c-aa3b-2f489814a368 Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item185538 Data Deep_Geothermal_Areas 2024-07-12 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608258 <div style='text-align:Left;'><div><div><p><span>This shapefile shows polygons where there is favourable geology for deep geothermal exploration in the UK and for the sedimentary basins, the areas have been considered in more detailed geothermal studies. Known areas of sedimentary basins or productive aquifers have been excluded, where they have not yet been evaluated for geothermal potential at any level of detail. The areas included are the whole sedimentary basin extents, or extents of granitic intrusions, as opposed to the smaller areas with heat-in-place or proved, recoverable resources over certain temperatures and depths. Coordinate Reference System is British National Grid. Northern Ireland data is also presented in British National Grid because of the UK extent of the information. Additional columns are as required to be supplied for inclusion in the GSEU project (https://www.geologicalservice.eu/). These include a ‘Geothermal Play Code’, ‘Geothermal Play Type’ ‘Plate Tectonic Setting’ ‘Geologic Habitat’ and ‘Geological Controls’ fields following the classification scheme of Moeck, I. S. (2014, Catalog of geothermal play types based on geologic controls. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 37, 867-882). Additional fields have been added for BGS for classification, colouring up.</span><span> </span><span>Full metatdata at: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608258</span></p></div></div></div> Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP GB enquiries@bgs.ac.uk Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP GB enquiries@bgs.ac.uk https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/1d5b8cc7-c9b8-62b2-e063-0937940a50b8.png GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 Limestone Granite Scottish SDI UK Location (INSPIRE) Geothermal surveys Sandstone NERC_DDC Limestone Granite Scottish SDI UK Location (INSPIRE) Geothermal surveys Sandstone NERC_DDC The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. 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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 GB British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 UK [id=139300] ISO 3166_2 2009 UKM -7.4900 2.2900 49.7700 58.5100 This shapefile shows polygons where there is favourable geology for deep geothermal exploration in the UK and for the sedimentary basins, the areas have been considered in more detailed geothermal studies. Known areas of sedimentary basins or productive aquifers have been excluded, where they have not yet been evaluated for geothermal potential at any level of detail. The areas included are the whole sedimentary basin extents, or extents of granitic intrusions, as opposed to the smaller areas with heat-in-place or proved, recoverable resources over certain temperatures and depths. Coordinate Reference System is British National Grid. Northern Ireland data is also presented in British National Grid because of the UK extent of the information. Additional columns are as required to be supplied for inclusion in the GSEU project (https://www.geologicalservice.eu/). These include a ‘Geothermal Play Code’, ‘Geothermal Play Type’ ‘Plate Tectonic Setting’ ‘Geologic Habitat’ and ‘Geological Controls’ fields following the classification scheme of Moeck, I. S. (2014, Catalog of geothermal play types based on geologic controls. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 37, 867-882). Additional fields have been added for BGS for classification, colouring up. Full metatdata at: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608258 Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" <div style='text-align:Left;'><div><div><p><span style='font-size:12pt'>This resource has been made available under the Open Government Licence (OGL).</span></p></div></div></div> dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 See the referenced specification false Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false Polygons were created by BGS using information from the following sources: Rollin, K. E., G. A. Kirby, and W. J. Rowley. Atlas of geothermal resources in Europe: UK revision. British Geological Survey, Regional Geophysics Group, 1995. Busby 2013 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-013-1054-4. BGS Bedrock Geology 625K V5, BGS Bedrock Geology 50K V8. BGS Tectonic Map of Britain, Ireland and adjacent areas. 1:1,500,00 series 1996. Raine and Reay, 2021 https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531393/ . Kearsey et al. 2024 Midland Valley of Scotland geothermal aquifer modelling study. Newell, A. 2023 https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536918/. Jones et al. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102649 . 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