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Legacy BGS geothermal models: depth to the top early Carboniferous limestone (hot sedimentary aquifers) in northern and southern England

Publisher
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
13 August 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

This raster dataset represents the depth in metres to the top of the early Carboniferous limestone (ECL) over the Northern and Southern Provinces in Great Britain. The raster grid is provided at a 2500 m resolution. The layer can be used to identify prospective geothermal heat resources, such as areas with deep burial depths beneath thick Permian-Mesozoic sequences, as in the Cheshire Basin, and the flanks of the East Irish Sea and Southern North Sea basins; or beneath thick later Carboniferous strata, as in the Stoke-on-Trent area.

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UK Geothermal Platform 13/8/2026
UK Geothermal Platform Web Map 13/8/2026

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
13 August 2026
Harvest GUID
2f98f2ff-2ede-37b7-e063-0937940a4ed0
Extent (Latitude)
53.9990° to 50.7658°
Extent (Longitude)
-3.2026° to 1.6273°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2023
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
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, pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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