{"id":3316,"date":"2025-03-20T10:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/quality\/shale-gas\/aquifers-and-shales\/groundwater-and-shale-gas-background-information\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:44:48","slug":"data","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/energy\/shale-gas-and-groundwater\/aquifers-and-shales\/data\/","title":{"rendered":"Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<section class=\"hero-section hero-section-with-social\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero-info-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Data<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"social-wrap social-wrap-inline-them\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sea-background-f\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Share this article<\/span><a target=\"_blank\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/energy\/shale-gas-and-groundwater\/aquifers-and-shales\/data\/\"><span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span class=\"hidden\">Facebook<\/span><\/span><\/a><a target=\"_blank\"  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Data&#038;url=https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/energy\/shale-gas-and-groundwater\/aquifers-and-shales\/data\/\"><span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span class=\"hidden\">Twitter<\/span><\/span><\/a><a   onclick=\"javascript:void( (function() {var e=document.createElement('script' );e.setAttribute('type','text\/javascript' );e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8' );e.setAttribute('src','\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());\"  href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><span class=\"icon-pinterest\"><span class=\"hidden\">Pinterest<\/span><\/span><\/a><a target=\"_blank\"  href=\"https:\/\/wa.me?text=https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/energy\/shale-gas-and-groundwater\/aquifers-and-shales\/data\/\"><span class=\"icon-whatsapp\"><span class=\"hidden\">WhatsApp<\/span><\/span><\/a><a   href=\"mailto:?subject=Data&#038;body=%20(https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/energy\/shale-gas-and-groundwater\/aquifers-and-shales\/data\/)\"><span class=\"icon-mail\"><span class=\"hidden\">Email<\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"#\" data-copy=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/energy\/shale-gas-and-groundwater\/aquifers-and-shales\/data\/\" class=\"copy-url-on-click\"><span class=\"icon-link\"><span class=\"hidden\">Copy Link<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-bgs-blocks-content-container content-section\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The datasets used to produce the aquifer maps, the shale and clay occurrence maps and the separation maps are available to download for your own use. As with other BGS datasets available for download, they will enable you to work offline to develop your own systems and methodologies using BGS data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data used to produce the aquifer, shale and clay maps is available as ESRI GIS and KML files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please make sure you have read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/quality\/shale-gas-and-groundwater#about\">background information<\/a> about groundwater and shale gas and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/quality\/shale-gas-and-groundwater\/aquifers-and-shales\/methods\">understand the methods used to create them<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Terms of use<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dataset is delivered under the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/doc\/open-government-licence\/version\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open Government Licence<\/a>, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced BGS materials: <\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t<blockquote id=\"quote-9298-block_d794bfdf277fea51375c48d9843fd510\" class=\"quote  \" >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"quote-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/wp-content\/themes\/bgs\/img\/quote-caption.svg\" alt=\"Speech marks icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"quote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Contains British Geological Survey materials BGS \u00a9 UKRI [insert year when BGS material is being used].<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Downloads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ESRI GIS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/download\/esri-gis-aquifer-data\/\">Aquifer data<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/download\/esri-gis-shale-data\/\">Shale data<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/groundwater\/download\/esri-gis-vertical-separation-data\/\">Vertical separation data<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">KML<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Aquifer data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shale data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vertical separation data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"cta-section  sea-background-e \">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row md-row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Need more information?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"btn-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/contact-the-person\/?employee=smedley-pauline\"  class=\"button primary-background   \">Contact Pauline Smedley<\/a><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":2526,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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