East Grampians geological field data.
The database contains basic tabulated field data resulting from the work of the BGS East Grampians Project in the early 1980s to mid 1990s. Records include the locations of stations at which field observations were made, structural measurements and sample locations. To this end, the database provides an index to locations and structural data. However, it needs to be stated clearly that labels given to structural elements are largely subjective beyond the identification of bedding. This means that the structural data are largely unusable without a clear understanding of their context and with regard to the primary paper record on which descriptions of the observed structures are recorded. The data are held in MS ACCESS tables which are related via the Station number as the primary key. The coverage is mainly confined to the North East Grampian Highlands of Scotland. The database is currently unused and has not been added to since the end of the East Grampians Project. The station location and structural data are effectively complete. However, fields in the sample database, such as the sample stratigraphy, are largely incomplete because, at the time the data were acquired, the stratigraphy at each station was formally undefined. The most effective way of presenting and investigating the data is via GIS.
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Data entry lapsed after 1992. The East Grampians field data are mainly structural measurements without any supporting descriptive context, and the context is essential if the data are to be correctly interpreted. They are best regarded as a digital copy of paper field records and need to be used together with notebooks and fieldslips. The data were collected in this form in parallel with developments in the databasing of geological information in BGS. The aim was to try and provide rapid access to field data collected by a number of geologists over a wide area. Stations are located by British National Grid coordinates to the nearest 10m, estimated; the data predate the use of hand-held GPS in the field and so were located by conventional survey methods, such as fixing on topographical/cultural features, or by basic compass triangulation. Such a link with lithostratigraphy might now be possible via GIS processing using DigMap data in conjunction with this database. Lack of funds preclude this development at present. The data are stand-alone, but it may now be possible to link these data with other, corporate, datasets, such as DigMapGB. Data were originally collected by a number of Highlands geologists. The data were managed by C Thomas. After data entry into text files, data were validated against the originals by the geologist before they were loaded to a relational database (MIMER, then ORACLE).
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publication
2008-06-01
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Geological mapping
Maps
Structural mapping
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2022
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1979
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1990
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1983
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The database contains basic tabulated field data resulting from the work of the BGS East Grampians Project in the early 1980s to mid 1990s. Data entry is to ASCII files, followed by geologists validation and editing by data manager. Once edited the data are loaded into a relational database management system (RDBMS).
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United Kingdom
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British Geological Survey
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United Kingdom
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2024-04-18