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Metadata: 2001, BGS, A description of offshore gravel areas around the UK
Abstract:
Author: British Geological Survey. Report number: R44.This report describes the location, origin and nature of gravel patches from selected areas around the UK, mostly outside the 12 nm limit. The areas are the English Channel, the Irish Sea and the Hebrides and West Shetland shelves. Although all the gravel patches are lag deposits and exist because finer material has been winnowed away, there are significant differences in the characteristics of gravels in the 3 areas. These can be related to a combination of factors, which include the nature of the bedrock, glacial and fluvial processes and biogenic carbonate build up.
Data holder:
British Geological Survey, Keyworth
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 4704 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | 2001, BGS, A description of offshore gravel areas around the UK |
| Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | BGS CR/01/259 |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 4e61618da3e3535189faa32abd0a9c1c |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 18892 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2001 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2001 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | 1 |
| Spatial resolution unit | This describes the unit of spatial resolution which for distance must be metres. | http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | Author: British Geological Survey. Report number: R44.This report describes the location, origin and nature of gravel patches from selected areas around the UK, mostly outside the 12 nm limit. The areas are the English Channel, the Irish Sea and the Hebrides and West Shetland shelves. Although all the gravel patches are lag deposits and exist because finer material has been winnowed away, there are significant differences in the characteristics of gravels in the 3 areas. These can be related to a combination of factors, which include the nature of the bedrock, glacial and fluvial processes and biogenic carbonate build up. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | This project was funded by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) under contract F90-01-387, to report on areas of gravel deposits in three areas around the UK: the English Channel, south of the Isle of Wight; the West Shetland and Hebridean shelves; and the Irish Sea, in the central area of Cardigan Bay and north of Anglesey. Gravel areas were identified primarily from published BGS 1:250000 scale maps and it should be noted that gravel on such maps is defined by areas where 80% or greater of the sediment by weight consists of material with grain size on more than 2mm. Due to the origins and nature of the gravel, in many cases the patches will also contain cobbles and boulders, even if there is no direct evidence of these larger clast sizes in the sediment samples. |
| Additional information | This describes relevant references to the data e.g. reports, articles, websites plus other useful information not captured elsewhere. | Presentation type: digital representation of a primarily textual item (can contain illustrations also) Spatial representation type: 001 Supply media: 001 Origin: British Geological Survey |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Sediment grain size parameters |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Research | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Research and Development Activity | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Sedimentary structure | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Habitat extent | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
| Keyword title | MEDIN | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| Keyword title | MEDIN | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 60.876099 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.7629 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 49.164902 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -8.6526 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | Joint Nature Conservation Committee | |
| Phone | +44(0)1733562626 | |
| Delivery point | Monkstone House | |
| zoe.crutchfield@jncc.gov.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.jncc.gov.uk | |
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | British Geological Survey, Keyworth | |
| Individual name | C Graham, H A Stewart, C V L Poulton and J W C James | |
| Phone | +44 (0)115 936 3100 | |
| Fax | +44 (0)115 936 3200 | |
| Delivery point | Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth | |
| Postal code | NG12 5GG | |
| City | Nottingham | |
| Administrative area | Nottinghamshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bgs.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.bgs.ac.uk | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | British Geological Survey, Keyworth | |
| Individual name | C Graham, H A Stewart, C V L Poulton and J W C James | |
| Phone | +44 (0)115 936 3100 | |
| Fax | +44 (0)115 936 3200 | |
| Delivery point | Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth | |
| Postal code | NG12 5GG | |
| City | Nottingham | |
| Administrative area | Nottinghamshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bgs.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.bgs.ac.uk | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/1601/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | copyright | |
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | exclusive right to the publication, production, or sale of the rights to a literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, or to the use of a commercial print or label, granted by law for a specified period of time to an author, composer, artist, distributor, rights to financial benefit from and control of distribution of nontangible property that is a result of creativity |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Government Funded Research Project |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2001-01-01 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2001-01-01 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2005-12-09 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | Version 2.3.5 |