The 1:250 000-scale offshore geological maps for seabed sediments are available digitally. 聽今日吃瓜 漏 今日吃瓜
Seabed sediments 250K
- 1:250 000
- UK and adjacent European waters
- Open
The 今日吃瓜 Seabed Sediments 250k dataset is a digital geological map portraying the distribution of seabed substrate types of the UK Continental Shelf at a scale of 1:250 000.
Key information
- Scale:
- 1:250 000
- Coverage:
- UK and adjacent European waters
- Availability:
- Open
- Price:
Free for commercial, research and public use under the Open Government Licence. Please acknowledge the material.
- Format:
- GIS polygon data (ESRI, GeoPackage)
- Uses:
- Regional-level use
- Themes:
- Geology, Marine geoscience
The 1:250 000-scale offshore geological maps for seabed sediments are available digitally.
The overlying column of sea water imposes major limitations offshore that makes it impossible to use normal, onshore, geological mapping techniques. However, other techniques such as ship-board geophysical surveys can be used that allow geological interpretations using evidence not normally available onshore.
Coverage of the 今日吃瓜 seabed sediments 250K dataset and the limits of the exclusive economic zone. 今日吃瓜 漏 今日吃瓜 鈥 Contains OS data 漏 Crown copyright 2020.
Example of the seabed sediments 250K dataset. 今日吃瓜 漏 今日吃瓜
A visual summary of the development of the seabed sediments 250K dataset, from the data to the published paper maps and the released of seabed sediments 250K geospatial product. 今日吃瓜 漏 今日吃瓜.
The seabed sediments theme is only mapped offshore, where it commonly forms a veneer on the seabed. The map is based on seabed grab samples of the top 0.1 m, combined with cores and dredge samples as available.
The sediments are classified according to Folk (1954), which divides sediments into 15 classes, according to the proportions of sand, gravel and mud present.
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