Reference System

MD_ReferenceSystem:

referenceSystemIdentifier:

RS_Identifier:

code:

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

code:

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Identification

Data Identification:

citation:

Citation:

Title:

Legacy BGS geothermal models: temperature at the base Sherwood Sandstone Group in the Permo-Triassic Cheshire, Worcester, Wessex and East Yorkshire-Lincolnshire basins (hot sedimentary aquifer resources)

Date:

CI_Date:

Date Type:

publication

date:

1995

Identifier:

RS_Identifier:

code:

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608350

Abstract:

This vector contour dataset represents the calculated temperature distribution (°C) at the base of the Sherwood Sandstone Group (SSG) in the main Permo-Triassic Cheshire, Wessex and Worcester basins and the intra-SSG temperature in the East Yorkshire-Lincolnshire Basin, considered for their hot sedimentary aquifer geothermal resource potential. The extent of the temperature maps corresponds to the extent of the modelled base SSG in each basin. The maps and are based on temperature data from the latest revision of the UK Geothermal Catalogue (1987) compiled during the 1977-1991 Geothermal Energy Programme. For all basins taken together, the temperature ranges between 5.3 °C to 103.7 °C, with the highest temperatures found at depth in the Wessex Basin. The dataset is used as a basis for the determination of the heat resource potential of the Triassic hot sedimentary aquifers in the UK (heat-in-place and heat recoverable). This dataset is derived from Rollin, K. E., G. A. Kirby, and W. J. Rowley. Atlas of geothermal resources in Europe: UK revision. British Geological Survey technical report WK/95/7, Regional Geophysics Group, 1995: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/publications/publication.html?id=21735106 and the European Geothermal Atlas (https://op.europa.eu/publication-detail/-/publication/9003d463-03ed-4b0e-87e8-61325a2d4456).

Point of Contact:

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Enquiries

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

phone:

CI_Telephone:

voice:

0115 936 3142

facsimile:

0115 936 3276

Address:

Delivery Point:

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South

city:

EDINBURGH

administrative Area:

LOTHIAN

Postal Code:

EH14 4AP

country:

United Kingdom

e-mail:

[email protected]

role:

distributor

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Enquiries

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

phone:

CI_Telephone:

voice:

0115 936 3142

facsimile:

0115 936 3276

Address:

Delivery Point:

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South

city:

EDINBURGH

administrative Area:

LOTHIAN

Postal Code:

EH14 4AP

country:

United Kingdom

e-mail:

[email protected]

role:

pointOfContact

Resource Maintenance:

MD_MaintenanceInformation:

maint. / update frequency:

notPlanned

Graphic overview:

Browse Graphic:

File Name:

https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/2f833ab6-6541-2ea4-e063-0937940a6e96.png

Descriptive Keywords:

Keywords:

keyword:

https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/theme/ge

keyword:

Geology

Thesaurus Name:

Citation:

Title:

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Date:

CI_Date:

date:

2008-06-01

Date Type:

publication

Keywords:

keyword:

Aquifers

keyword:

Geothermal energy

keyword:

Sandstone reservoirs

keyword:

Triassic

keyword:

Temperature

Thesaurus Name:

Citation:

Title:

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Date:

CI_Date:

date:

2022

Date Type:

revision

Keywords:

keyword:

UK Location (INSPIRE)

keyword:

http://www.data.gov.uk

keyword:

https://data.geoscience.earth/ncl/project/_48

keyword:

EGDI

Type:

dataCentre

Keywords:

keyword:

NERC_DDC

Resource Constraints:

MD_LegalConstraints:

Access Constraints:

otherRestrictions

Other Constraints:

no limitations

Other Constraints:

http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/LimitationsOnPublicAccess/noLimitations

Other Constraints:

The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.

MD_LegalConstraints:

Use Constraints:

otherRestrictions

Other Constraints:

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other Constraints:

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Other Constraints:

The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section ([email protected]) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.

Spatial Representation Type:

vector

Spatial Resolution:

Resolution:

distance:

value:

100

units:

urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

language:

eng

topicCategory:

geoscientificInformation

Extent:

Geographic Element:

Geographic Bounding Box:

westBoundLongitude:

-3.3784

eastBoundLongitude:

1.2832

southBoundLatitude:

50.5210

northBoundLatitude:

55.0881

Geographic Description:

Geographic Identifier:

RS_Identifier:

authority:

Citation:

Title:

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geological gazetteer

Date:

CI_Date:

Date Type:

creation

date:

2005

code:

Cheshire Basin [id=1000427]

Geographic Description:

Geographic Identifier:

RS_Identifier:

authority:

Citation:

Title:

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus

Date:

CI_Date:

Date Type:

creation

date:

1979

code:

EAST YORKSHIRE & LINCOLNSHIRE [id=156000]

Geographic Description:

Geographic Identifier:

RS_Identifier:

authority:

Citation:

Title:

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geological gazetteer

Date:

CI_Date:

Date Type:

creation

date:

2005

code:

Wessex Basin [id=1000328]

Geographic Description:

Geographic Identifier:

RS_Identifier:

authority:

Citation:

Title:

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: OS Boundary Line

Date:

CI_Date:

Date Type:

revision

date:

2009

code:

Worcestershire County [id=2993]

Temporal Element:

TemporalExtent:

extent:

begin / end:

begin:

1978

end:

2025

Distribution

Distribution:

Distribution Format:

Format:

Format Name:

version:

Distributor:

Distributor Contact:

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Enquiries

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

phone:

CI_Telephone:

voice:

0115 936 3142

facsimile:

0115 936 3276

Address:

Delivery Point:

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South

city:

EDINBURGH

administrative Area:

LOTHIAN

Postal Code:

EH14 4AP

country:

United Kingdom

e-mail:

[email protected]

role:

distributor

Transfer Options:

Digital Transfer Options:

onLine:

CI_OnlineResource:

linkage:

https://ukgtp.bgs.ac.uk

protocol:

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name:

UK Geothermal Platform Web Map

description:

An interactive Web map for exploring geothermal energy potential, assessing constraints, and making informed exploration decisions.

function:

information

Digital Transfer Options:

onLine:

CI_OnlineResource:

linkage:

https://ukgeothermalplatform.org

protocol:

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name:

UK Geothermal Platform

description:

An online platform for exploring geothermal energy potential, assessing constraints, and making informed exploration decisions.

function:

information

Data Quality

Data Quality:

Scope:

DQ_Scope:

level:

dataset

Level Description:

MD_ScopeDescription:

other:

dataset

Report:

Domain Consistency:

Result:

Conformance Result:

specification:

Citation:

Title:

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

Date:

CI_Date:

Date Type:

publication

date:

2011

explanation:

See the referenced specification

pass:

Domain Consistency:

Result:

Conformance Result:

specification:

Citation:

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:

CI_Date:

Date Type:

publication

date:

2010-12-08

explanation:

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

pass:

Lineage:

LI_Lineage:

statement:

These temperature maps were compiled by BGS using data created and published by Rollin, K. E., G. A. Kirby, and W. J. Rowley. Atlas of geothermal resources in Europe: UK revision. British Geological Survey technical report WK/95/7, Regional Geophysics Group, 1995: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/publications/publication.html?id=21735106. Those were based on data compiled in the latest version of the UK Geothermal Catalogue, UKGC (1987) during the 1977-1991 Geothermal Energy Programme, delivered by BGS and funded by UK Department of Energy (and both its antecedents and successors), and the European Commission. Most of the temperature measurements consist of equilibrium temperatures and bottom hole temperatures (BHTs) corrected for the time since circulation using the Horner (HOR) method (Horner, 1951). For the Eastern England Basin, the temperature field for the Sherwood Sandstone Group was directly derived from available temperature data from about 250 wells compiled in the UKGC 1987. The temperature maps were interpolated and gridded using the ISM (Interactive Surface Modeling) package. For all the other basins, a model of the subsurface temperature was derived by convolution of the observed heat flow field with the geological/structural model of the basin and the thermal conductivity structure, using the UKGC thermal conductivity database, and assuming one-dimensional steady-state conductive heat transfer with heat production. The maps for each basin were vectorised and merged into a single layer as part of the 2025 UK Geothermal Platform project.

Metadata

File Identifier:

2f833ab6-6541-2ea4-e063-0937940a6e96

language:

eng

Resource type:

dataset

Metadata Contact:

Responsible Party:

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

phone:

CI_Telephone:

voice:

+44 131 667 1000

Address:

Delivery Point:

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South

city:

EDINBURGH

administrative Area:

LOTHIAN

Postal Code:

EH14 4AP

country:

United Kingdom

e-mail:

[email protected]

role:

pointOfContact

Date Stamp:

2026-09-01

Metadata Standard Name:

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/M25/current/GEMINI/

Metadata Standard Name:

UK GEMINI

Metadata Standard Version:

2.3

Dataset URI:

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608350