Legacy BGS geothermal models: temperature at the top Early Carboniferous Limestone (hot sedimentary aquifers) in northern and southern England

This raster dataset provides the modelled temperature at the top of the early Carboniferous limestone (ECL) in the Northern and Southern provinces in Great Britain. The data were created by D J.R. Jones, T. Randles, T. Kearsey, T.C. Pharaoh, A. Newell (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102649

Date (Publication): 2023

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608358

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

UK Location (INSPIRE)
Limestone
Geothermal energy
Aquifers
Carboniferous
Temperature

dataCentre

UK Location (INSPIRE)

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Access constraints: no limitations.

Use constraints: License

Other constraints: Use constraints: this dataset is available to view under the Open Government Licence V3 ( https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) to encourage its use and re-use, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced BGS materials: 'Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI [year]'. Some of the data shown in the BGS view-only service layers are available to licence. The licence cost will generally be a licence administration fee, depending on the usage type and the area coverage of the dataset requested. Companies and other commercial organisations with an interest in reselling BGS data or developing value-added products and services based on BGS data will need a BGS data resellers licence. For more information, contact digitaldata@bgs.ac.uk.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Distance: 2500 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: NORTHERN ENGLAND [id=151000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979

Geographic identifier: SOUTHERN ENGLAND [id=158800]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979

Begin date: 2022

End date: 2025

Unique resource identifier: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Distribution format

Name	Version

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://ukgtp.bgs.ac.uk	UK Geothermal Platform Web Map

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://ukgeothermalplatform.org	UK Geothermal Platform

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: 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

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: The study was conducted to assess the geothermal resource of the early Carboniferous limestone (ECL) in Great Britain. Temperature maps at the top of the ECL were calculated using a subset of wells from the UK Geothermal Catalogue (Rollin, 1987) located within the northern and southern ECL provinces. Corrected bottom hole temperature for 199 wells in the northern province and 117 wells in southern province were used to derive the average geothermal gradient based on a linear regression for each study area. The calculated geothermal gradients of 28.7 °C/km and 31.3 °C/km were used to estimate the temperature at the depth of the modelled top ECL depth, considering a mean annual surface temperature of 10.1 °C and 10.9 °C for the northern and southern provinces, respectively.