Alternate title

Geology offshore Ireland

Date (Creation)

2006-03-28

Date (Revision)

2016-07-01

Date (Publication)

2006-03-28

Citation identifier

GSI / GE.IE.GSI.GeologicUnitsOffshoreIreland

Citation identifier

GSI / GE.GeologicUnit

Purpose

Provide access to Irish INSPIRE harmonised Geologic Unit data

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Geological Survey Ireland		support@geodata.gov.ie	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

Spatial scope

• National

U.S. Geological Survey Thesaurus 1.0

• sciences

• earth sciences

• geology

• structural geology

• earth characteristics

• stratigraphic sections

• bedrock geologic units

• geologic contacts

• stratigraphy

• lithostratigraphy

• biological and physical processes

• geologic processes

• deformation (geologic)

• folding (geologic)

• fracture (geologic)

IUGS Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) Geologic Unit Type v0.1

• geologic unit

• lithologic unit

• lithostratigraphic unit

IUGS Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information(CGI)Geologic Unit Part Role v0.1

• only part

• part of

• unspecified part role

IUGS Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information(CGI)CGI Features

• EarthNaturalSurface

• EarthBedrockSurface

IUGS Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information(CGI)Event Environment v0.1

• aeolian_process_setting

• bog

• deltaic_system_setting

• earth_interior_setting

• earth_surface_setting

• glacier_related_setting

• lacustrine_setting

• marine_setting

• river_plain_system_setting

• shoreline_settings

• terrestrial_setting

IUGS Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information(CGI)Event Process v0.1

• deposition

• human_activity

• intrusion

• magmatic_process

• metamorphic_process

• sedimentary_process

International Chronostratigraphic Chart (2017) 2017-02 edition

• Cambrian

• Devonian

• Holocene

• Llandovery

• LowerDevonian

• LowerOrdovician

• Ludlow

• Mesoproterozoic

• MiddleOrdovician

• Mississippian

• Neoproterozoic

• Ordovician

• Paleogene

• Paleoproterozoic

• Paleozoic

• Pennsylvanian

• Permian

• Quaternary

• Silurian

• Tournaisian

• Triassic

• UpperCretaceous

• UpperDevonian

• UpperOrdovician

• Visean

IUGS Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information(CGI)Simple Lithology v0.1

• chalk

• clastic_conglomerate

• clastic_mudstone

• clastic_sandstone

• clay

• coal

• diamictite

• diamicton

• dioritoid

• doleritic_rock

• evaporite

• fine_grained_igneous_rock

• gabbroid

• gneiss

• granitoid

• gravel

• limestone

• mud

• non_clastic_siliceous_sedimentary_rock

• peat

• quartzite

• sand

• schist

• serpentinite

• shale

• silt

• slate

• wacke

GCMD Data Center Keywords 8.6

• IE/GSI

GeoNames Geographical Database

• Ireland

National Geographic Society Glossary

• lithosphere

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• science

• natural science

• earth science

• geology

Specific usage

Geology INSPIRE

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Geological Survey Ireland		support@geodata.gov.ie	User

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations to public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no conditions to access and use

Other constraints

CC BY 4.0

Other constraints

This layer is published under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).[ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ]

Under the CC-BY Licence, users must acknowledge the source of the Information in their product or application. Please use this specific attribution statement:

"Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence".

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

1000000

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Geoscientific information
• Environment

Supplemental Information

More Information About Data https://www.emodnet-geology.eu/data-products/sea-floor-geology/

EMODnet Geology portal Map Viewer https://www.emodnet-geology.eu/map-viewer/?p=sea_floor_geology

Download Data files (not INSPIRE compliant) https://www.gsi.ie/en-ie/data-and-maps/Pages/Bedrock.aspx

View Data (not INSPIRE compliant) https://dcenr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=de7012a99d2748ea9106e7ee1b6ab8d5

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)

Distribution format

Name	Version
gml+xml	3.2

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Geological Survey Ireland		support@geodata.gov.ie	Point of contact

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC Web Map Service	https://www.inspire.housing.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_gsi/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities	GSI Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS
ATOM Syndication Format	https://gsi-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomGSI_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml	GSI Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Followed D2.8.II.4 Data Specification on Geology - Technical Guidelines

Metadata

File identifier

INSPIRE_GE_Geologic_Units_Offshore_Ireland XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2022-12-01T12:00:00

Metadata standard name

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive

Metadata standard version

TG 2.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Geological Survey Ireland		support@geodata.gov.ie	Point of contact