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UKGEOS Cheshire - Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) data (Feb 2025)

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British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
25 September 2026
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Summary

This data contains raw electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) measurements made at the UKGEOS (United Kingdom Geoenergy Observatories) site at Thornton science park in Cheshire, as well as associated metadata, during February 2025. The measurements in this case were made in support of a 3-day closed loop heat injection test starting on the 10th of February 2025. During the test approx. 24kW of heat was equally distributed between 4 observatory heat exchanger boreholes via a circulating heat exchange fluid. This resulted in the fluid delivery temperature increasing from 12 to 27C. The ERT data was collected from 12 boreholes instrumented with ERT electrodes at 1m intervals from 12 to 96 m below the ground surface to facilitate down and cross- hole imaging with electrical currents (1008 electrodes in total). The electrodes are connected to a geoelectrical monitoring system comprising two PRIME servers (1 and 2) which are installed at the site indefinitely. The PRIME instrument is bespoke developed by the British Geological Survey (BGS) for long term geoelectrical monitoring applications, in this case the purpose of the data is to study how the electrical resistivity of the ground responds to temperature changes and other hydrogeological processes. Metadata includes the position of the electrodes within the subsurface, furthermore, finite element meshes are included to aid the user in processing this data. There is a readme (text) file provided with this data that describes its formatting and usage. This data is managed by BGS.

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Date added
25 September 2026
Harvest GUID
38655a96-3918-6fab-e063-3050940a2315
Dataset reference date (creation)
2025-06-19
Frequency of update
notPlanned
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Responsible party
British Geological Survey (distributor, originator, pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
nonGeographicDataset
Metadata language
eng

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