Date (Creation)

2023-08-09

Citation identifier

http://gsni-data.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/resources/eeee2244-953d-4b81-8124-9e1ce602bf2e

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

• Groundwater

• Aquifer

• Hydrogeology

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

INSPIRE: no limitations

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Available to view 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

250000

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Code

NIR

Begin date

2017-04-01

End date

2023-03-31

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:29902

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:4258

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:3857

Distribution format

Name	Version
OGC Geopackage	1.2.1

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://gsni-data.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/eeee2244-953d-4b81-8124-9e1ce602bf2e/attachments/NorthernIrelandsGroundwaterEnvironment.zip	NorthernIrelandsGroundwaterEnvironment.zip

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

These two datasets are the Superficial Deposits and the Bedrock groundwater aquifers of Northern Ireland. They show the extent of each of the 11 defined aquifers found in Northern Ireland. They are attributed with aquifer descriptions and include summary statistics on the aquifer physical and chemical properties.

They accompany the ‘Northern Ireland’s Groundwater Environment’ book which can be accessed at https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/535562/. This provides information on how the aquifers were defined and delineated, aquifer conceptual models and explains the groundwater processes within each aquifer .

The GSNI 1:250,000 bedrock and superficial geology data provide the geometry from which these data have been generated for these datasets.

The aquifer summary statistics have been derived from the Northern Ireland Groundwater Data Repository. This is a database of over 2000 boreholes and springs. An index can be viewed at https://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/gsni_geoindex/home.html. These attributes can be used to create bespoke groundwater maps relevant to the application they are being used for.

All other aquifer description attributes have been derived using a combination of available information and expert judgement by BGS Hydrogeologists.

Metadata

File identifier

eeee2244-953d-4b81-8124-9e1ce602bf2e XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2023-11-08T08:32:37

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