4ca3b2e76dd4d05f635dbaf59fce55c56a7e77bf eng Garry Baker British Geological Survey Head of BGS Data Centre +44 (0)115 936 3100 +44 (0)115 936 3200 enquiries@bgs.ac.uk British Geological Survey Environmental Science Centre Keyworth Nottingham NG12 5GG UK http://www.ukso.org 2022-04-08T08:34:54 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 CRS:84 EPSG:4326 EPSG:4258 EPSG:27700 EPSG:3857 GBR BGS Soil depth from boreholes 2022-04-08T08:34:54 "The BGS holds over a million borehole records and these can be viewed online in the dedicated borehole viewer (https://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/boreholescans/home.html). Coverage across Great Britain is clustered (generally within urban centres and corridors). This map only shows borehole data that has been captured to date (additional data may exist). Boreholes are drilled for assessing ground conditions for construction, water and mineral resources. They are generally not drilled for the purpose of recording soil information. However, many boreholes note the depth of deposits classed as 'Topsoil' and so BGS has started to compile a dataset of reported 'Topsoil' depths. Most records suggest that the driller has identified a generic 'Topsoil' layer. Some records provide further details that indicate the topsoil layer has differing properties, or is not solely a topsoil layer but a combination of soil and other materials (e.g. parent material, peat and artificial ground). Users should therefore be aware that the term 'topsoil', as used in borehole records, should be regarded as a very simple description of what soil-scientists might regard as a combination of O, A, E and possibly B horizons." Garry Baker British Geological Survey Head of BGS Data Centre +44 (0)115 936 3100 +44 (0)115 936 3200 enquiries@bgs.ac.uk British Geological Survey Environmental Science Centre Keyworth Nottingham NG12 5GG UK http://www.ukso.org http://onegeology-geonetwork.brgm.fr/geonetwork3/srv/api/records/4ca3b2e76dd4d05f635dbaf59fce55c56a7e77bf/attachments/4ca3b2e76dd4d05f635dbaf59fce55c56a7e77bf_s.png thumbnail png http://onegeology-geonetwork.brgm.fr/geonetwork3/srv/api/records/4ca3b2e76dd4d05f635dbaf59fce55c56a7e77bf/attachments/4ca3b2e76dd4d05f635dbaf59fce55c56a7e77bf.png large_thumbnail png Map Geology Soil Borehole Parent material Soil depth from boreholes OneGeology continent@Europe subcontinent@Northern Europe geographicarea@United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dataprovider@British Geological Survey serviceprovider@British Geological Survey DS_TOPIC@geoscientificinformation DS_DATE@2022 thematic@Soil thematic@Pedology thematic@Borehole 14174.107143 236235.119048 geoscientificInformation -8.349305 2.705428 49.846240 60.872383 https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/UKSO/UKSO_BGS/MapServer/WmsServer? OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map Soil.depth.from.boreholes GBR BGS Soil depth from boreholes http://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/en/csw?SERVICE=CSW&REQUEST=GetRecordById&ID=9df8df52-d7c7-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98&elementSetName=full&OutputSchema=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd& application/xml Soil.depth.from.boreholes (MetadataURL) https://map.bgs.ac.uk/BGS_WMS/legends/soilproperties/soil_depth_from_boreholes.png image/png Soil depth from boreholes (LegendURL)