1d5b8cc7-c9b8-62b2-e063-0937940a50b8 eng utf8 dataset British Geological Survey +44 131 667 1000 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-01 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608258 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700) Deep geothermal potential areas in the UK, version 2 2024-07-12 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608258 This dataset shows polygons where there is favourable geology for deep geothermal exploration in the UK and for the sedimentary basins, the areas have been considered in more detailed geothermal studies. Known areas of sedimentary basins or productive aquifers have been excluded, where they have not yet been evaluated for geothermal potential at any level of detail. The areas included are the whole sedimentary basin extents, or extents of granitic intrusions, as opposed to the smaller areas with heat-in-place or proved, recoverable resources over certain temperatures and depths. Coordinate Reference System is British National Grid. Northern Ireland data is also presented in British National Grid because of the UK extent of the information. Additional columns are as required to be supplied for inclusion in the GSEU project (https://www.geologicalservice.eu/). These include a ‘Geothermal Play Code’, ‘Geothermal Play Type’ ‘Plate Tectonic Setting’ ‘Geologic Habitat’ and ‘Geological Controls’ fields following the classification scheme of Moeck, I. S. (2014, Catalog of geothermal play types based on geologic controls. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 37, 867-882). Additional fields have been added for BGS for classification, colouring up. 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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" vector eng geoscientificInformation -8.6500 1.7800 49.8500 60.8800 ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision GB British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation UK [id=139300] ISO 3166_2 2009 revision UKM 1987-01-01 2024-03-31 Microsoft Word ESRI Shapefile 1994 Image (PNG) Image (JPEG) Image (TIFF) 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 distributor https://arcgis.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/SDDS/Deep_Geothermal_Areas/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities Deep Geothermal Areas One or more layers for the dataset is provided through this OGC WMS (view) service. information https://doi.org/10.5285/f99a6179-0040-443c-aa3b-2f489814a368 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) British Geological Survey. (2024). Deep geothermal potential areas in the UK, version 2. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/f99a6179-0040-443c-aa3b-2f489814a368 information https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item185538 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download DATA - Deep geothermal potential areas in the UK, version 2 This shapefile shows polygons where there is favourable geology for deep geothermal exploration in the UK and for the sedimentary basins, the areas have been considered in more detailed geothermal studies. Known areas of sedimentary basins or productive aquifers have been excluded, where they have not yet been evaluated for geothermal potential at any level of detail. download 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 Polygons were created by BGS using information from the following sources: Rollin, K. E., G. A. Kirby, and W. J. Rowley. Atlas of geothermal resources in Europe: UK revision. British Geological Survey, Regional Geophysics Group, 1995. Busby 2013 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-013-1054-4. BGS Bedrock Geology 625K V5, BGS Bedrock Geology 50K V8. BGS Tectonic Map of Britain, Ireland and adjacent areas. 1:1,500,00 series 1996. Raine and Reay, 2021 https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531393/ . Kearsey et al. 2024 Midland Valley of Scotland geothermal aquifer modelling study. Newell, A. 2023 https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536918/. Jones et al. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102649 . High heat producing granites names also used McCay and Younger 2017 (https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2016-008; Gillespie et al. 2013.