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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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• 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)