Temperature Maps of the British Coalfields
This dataset provides the first map and synthesis of the temperature of Britain's coalfields. It was created to support low-temperature heat recovery, cooling and storage schemes using mine water in abandoned workings. This baseline spatial mapping and synthesis of coalfield temperatures offers significant benefit to those planning, designing and regulating heat recovery and storage in Britain's abandoned coalfields. The data has been developed jointly by the Coal Authority and the British Geological Survey. It is delivered as a hexgrid representing mine water blocks, identifying equilibrium mine temperatures at 10 depth intervals (100m > 1000m) and pumped mine temperatures at 6 depth intervals (100m > 600m).
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http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607914
eng
geoscientificInformation
publication
2008-06-01
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Energy
Carboniferous
Coal
Coal fields
Mine waters
Temperature
revision
2022
NERC_DDC
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1.8773
56.2757
51.1732
revision
2009
GBN
creation
1979
GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600]
2020-11-16
creation
2020-11
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This map has been produced using Coal Authority ‘mine water blocks’ which illustrate the best known hydrological divisions in coalfields. The boundaries have been hexagonised to reflect uncertainty in their margins. Data from three sources was used to estimate temperatures including (1) Coal Authority downhole temperature profiles, from boreholes and shafts that intercept flooded workings; (2) the BGS UK Geothermal Catalogue (UKGC) including data from the National Coal Board, hydrocarbon boreholes and other investigative boreholes, representing both mined and unmined areas of the coalfields; (3) historical in situ strata temperatures measured directly in coal seams within operational coal mines.
publication
2011
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See the referenced specification
publication
2010-12-08
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Geopackage
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British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
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United Kingdom
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British Geological Survey
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United Kingdom
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