BGS Digital Map Teaching Set for universities Murchison
BGS Digital Map Teaching Set for universities Murchison House West Mains Road Edinburgh EH 9 3 LA Tel 0131 667 1000 © NERC All rights reserved
BGS Digital Map Teaching Set A data package comprising: • 12 geological map sheet areas spanning a range of geological complexity and patterns • Scanned image of paper maps as PDFs • Arc. Map (GIS) project containing: o Di. GMap. GB-50 (all layers) o Borehole locations and hotlinks to scanned records o Digital Terrain Models (incl. Next. Map) o Aerial photography © NERC All rights reserved
BGS Digital Map Teaching Set • E 31 Brough under Stainmore • Isle of Wight special sheet • E 119 Snowdon • Bristol District special sheet Interaction of horizontal strata with topography; strike-slip and extensional fault systems; overstep unconformities; sills Interaction of inclined beds with topography; onlap boundaries; simple monoformal folding Open folding; extrusive igneous rocks Unconformities, folding, thrusts © NERC All rights reserved
BGS Digital Map Teaching Set • E 227/245/228 Milford/Haverfordwest/ Pembroke Folding; thrusting; fault reactivation. Very common fieldwork location • S 28 Knapdale Ductile deformation; polyphase folding. Common fieldwork location • S 15 W/E Leadhills/New Cumnock (=old Sanquhar sheet) Terrane boundaries; thrusting; building up multi-event geological histories • Arran special sheet Multi-event histories; diverse geological relationships. Common fieldwork location © NERC All rights reserved
BGS Digital Map Teaching Set • Assynt special sheet Buried landscape unconformities; thrust systems. Common fieldwork location • S 44 Eastern Mull Igneous complexes • S 71 Broadford Building up multi-event geological histories; igneous complexes. Common fieldwork location • E 38 Ambleside Building up multi-event geological histories; collapsed volcanic caldera. Common fieldwork location © NERC All rights reserved
End User arrangements • • End users to sign Undertaking Agreement with BGSNERC End users to sign Academic User License Agreement with Intermap Technologies (DTMs) BGS to notify Info. Terra (Aerial photography) regarding each end user BGS Business Solutions section will provide DVD and support © NERC All rights reserved
Future developments • • 3 -D geological models to accompany teaching set Extranet delivery for borehole or map scans Delivery of data via Web Map Services e. g. GIS maps, vocabulary data services (1: 625 k geology map already available for Google Earth mashups) Further teaching resources, e. g. seismometers (extending the School Seismology Project) © NERC All rights reserved
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