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BGS Digital Map Teaching Set for universities

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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

• ArcMap (GIS) project containing:o DiGMapGB-50 (all layers)o Borehole locations and hotlinks to scanned recordso Digital Terrain Models (incl. NextMap)o Aerial photography

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BGS Digital Map Teaching Set

• E31 Brough under StainmoreInteraction of horizontal strata with topography; strike-slip and extensional fault systems; overstep unconformities; sills

• Isle of Wight special sheetInteraction of inclined beds with topography; onlap boundaries; simple monoformal folding

• E119 SnowdonOpen folding; extrusive igneous rocks

• Bristol District special sheetUnconformities, folding, thrusts

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BGS Digital Map Teaching Set

• E227/245/228  Milford/Haverfordwest/

PembrokeFolding; thrusting; fault reactivation. Very common fieldwork location

• S28 KnapdaleDuctile deformation; polyphase folding. Common fieldwork location

• S15W/E  Leadhills/New Cumnock (=old Sanquhar sheet)Terrane boundaries; thrusting; building up multi-event geological histories

• Arran special sheetMulti-event histories; diverse geological relationships. Common fieldwork location

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• Assynt special sheetBuried landscape unconformities; thrust systems. Common fieldwork location

 

• S44  Eastern MullIgneous complexes

 

• S71  BroadfordBuilding up multi-event geological histories; igneous complexes. Common fieldwork location

 

• E38  AmblesideBuilding up multi-event geological histories; collapsed volcanic caldera. Common fieldwork location

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• End users to sign Undertaking Agreement with BGS-NERC

• End users to sign Academic User License Agreement with Intermap Technologies (DTMs)

• BGS to notify InfoTerra (Aerial photography) regarding each end user

• BGS Business Solutions section will provide DVD and support

End User arrangements

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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 (1:625k geology map already available for Google Earth mashups)

• Further teaching resources, e.g. seismometers (extending the School Seismology Project)