Engineering Geology Map of Belfast and Surrounding District (2024)

The Engineering Geology Map of Belfast and Surrounding District (2024) presents a geological map of the area surrounding Belfast. The depth to rockhead and depth to the top of the till are shown as contours on inset maps. A summary of the engineering properties of the deposits are provided, along with a schematic cross-section, and conceptual diagrams.



Cite this publication as:

Roberson, S., Cooper, M.R., Donald, A.W & Lemon, K. 2024. Engineering Geology Map of Belfast

and Surrounding District, 2nd Edition. Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Belfast.

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Date (Creation)
2024-03-19
Citation identifier
http://gsni-data.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/resources/19d76dbd-0355-410a-acb8-da7c19f1b217
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Geological Survey of Northern Ireland

gsni@economy-ni.gov.uk

Publisher
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Geological Survey of Northern Ireland

gsni@economy-ni.gov.uk

Custodian

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology
Keywords

  • Hazards

  • Engineering

  • Sub-surface
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
INSPIRE: no limitations
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ We request that you acknowledge that the resource contains Geological Survey of Northern Ireland materials provided under the Open Government Licence.
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
25000
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Code
NIR
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Begin date
2000-04-01
End date
2023-03-31
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:29902
Distribution format
Name Version

PDF

1.6

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD:PDF https://gsni-data.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/19d76dbd-0355-410a-acb8-da7c19f1b217/attachments/BelfastEngineeringMap.pdf

Engineering Geology Map of Belfast and Surrounding District
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Pass
No
Statement

The Belfast Engineering Geology Map is presented in a PDF format. The map contains geological mapping, derived from the GSNI 1:10K Geological Map, and supporting tables and figures to provide a summary of engineering properties in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Metadata

File identifier
19d76dbd-0355-410a-acb8-da7c19f1b217 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-10-13T14:21:02.309509Z
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Geological Survey of Northern Ireland

gsni@economy-ni.gov.uk

Point of contact
 
 

Overviews

overview

Spatial extent

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology


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