ae9a9add-307b-4458-91c6-7eb41f70f2a4 English British Geological Survey +44 131 667 1000 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk 2025-07-25T11:24:55.417419Z UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608358 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700) Legacy BGS geothermal models: temperature at the top Early Carboniferous Limestone (hot sedimentary aquifers) in northern and southern England 2023 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608358 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 Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/ae9a9add-307b-4458-91c6-7eb41f70f2a4.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 UK Location (INSPIRE) Limestone Geothermal energy Aquifers Carboniferous Temperature BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 UK Location (INSPIRE) NERC_DDC Access constraints: no limitations. 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. 2500 English geoscientificInformation British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 NORTHERN ENGLAND [id=151000] British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 SOUTHERN ENGLAND [id=158800] -3.2026 1.6273 50.7658 53.999 2022 2025 Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk https://ukgtp.bgs.ac.uk WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link UK Geothermal Platform Web Map An interactive Web map for exploring geothermal energy potential, assessing constraints, and making informed exploration decisions. https://ukgeothermalplatform.org WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link UK Geothermal Platform An online platform for exploring geothermal energy potential, assessing constraints, and making informed exploration decisions. 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 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.