Legacy BGS geothermal models: temperature map of the UK at 5 km depth
This vector contour dataset represents the temperature distribution at 5 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.
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http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608370
English
Geoscientific information
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0:
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences:
Temperature
Aquifers
Geothermal energy
Free:
Free:
NERC_DDC
-6.811,
49.885,
2.403,
58.637
ENG, ENGLAND [id=150000], SCOTLAND [id=140000], SCT
publication: 2017
1978
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2017
vector
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British Geological Survey
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The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South,
EDINBURGH,
EH14 4AP,
United Kingdom
tel: 0115 936 3142
email:
[email protected]
Role: point of contact
Data Quality
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.
Minimal Distance:
1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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British Geological Survey
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South,
EDINBURGH,
EH14 4AP,
United Kingdom
tel: +44 131 667 1000
email:
[email protected]
Role: point of contact
2026-09-01