Legacy BGS geothermal models: temperature map of the UK at 7 km depth

This vector contour dataset represents the temperature distribution at 7 km depth in the UK. Method described in Busby, J. and Terrington, R., 2017. Assessment of the resource base for engineered geothermal systems in Great Britain. Geothermal Energy, 5, pp.1-18 and were used to calculate the heat-in-place and recoverable heat in EGS systems.

Date (Publication): 2017

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608372

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)
Aquifers
Geothermal energy
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: 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: ENG
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009

Geographic identifier: ENGLAND [id=150000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979

Geographic identifier: SCOTLAND [id=140000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979

Geographic identifier: SCT
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009

Begin date: 1978

End date: 2017

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: These temperature maps were calculated based on a 2-layer model comprising the basement and the overlying sedimentary rocks, constructed from a series of surfaces exported from the BGS LithoFrame 1:1M model ( http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/3Dgeology/lithoframe.html). Following the Beardsmore Protocol, the temperature at 1 km was first calculated based on surface heat flow (corrected for paleoclimate), mean surface temperature (mean annual air temperature), the thermal conductivity structure of the 2-layer model (thickness-weighted and temperature-corrected harmonic mean of all the formations in the sedimentary section) and the heat production within the sedimentary layer and basement (thickness-weighted arithmetic mean of all the sedimentary formations). Thermal conductivities of individual formations were taken from Rollin (2002). The temperatures at the mid-point of each 1000 m depth interval from 3000 m to the base of the model at 9500 m were then calculated, assuming heat conduction only and accounting for the decrease in radiogenic heat production with depth.