EMODnet Geology WP7 Marine Minerals Aggregates (Area)
Marine Aggregates areas
Short description
The aggregate deposits presented here comprise near-shore deposits of non-metallic detrital minerals and calcium carbonate. They occur both on beaches and deeper seabed areas. Marine aggregate deposits are principally extracted for use in the construction industry. Concentrated into their present occurrences by hydrodynamic processes, aggregates may have originally been deposited by mechanisms such as river or glacial deposition.
Point of contact
Geological Survey Ireland
EMODnet Geology WP7 Marine Minerals
charise.mckeon@gsi.ie
+353-1-6782000
+353-1-6783209
Beggars Bush
Haddington Road
Dublin 4
D04 K7X4
Ireland
Resource constraints
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Spatial extent
['-28.839942', '58.045400', '27.634003', '70.295150']
Type
dataset
Metadata information
Keywords
Mineral resources ; GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ; GEMET INSPIRE ;


sand ; gravel ; claystone ; pebble ; cobble ; boulder ; maerl ; silt ; Dictionary.com ; (C) 2020 Dictionary.com, LLC ;


science ; earth science ; natural science ; geology ; marine geology ; petroleum geology ; GEneral Mulitlingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.4, 13 Feb 2020 ; GEMET - Concepts ;


hydrosphere ; lithosphere ; EIONET - Concepts, version 4.1.4, 13 Feb 2020 ; EIONET - Concepts ;


Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland ; Geological Survey Ireland ; Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre ; IFREMER ; Geological Institute of Romania ; European Directory of Marine Organisations ; EDMO ;


Europe ; Spain ; Canary Islands ; Portugal ; France ; United Kingdom ; Ireland ; Germany ; Norway ; Sweden ; Finland ; Russian Federation ; Iceland ; Denmark ; Romania ; GeoNames Geographical Database ; GeoNames ;


Atlantic Ocean ; North Atlantic Ocean ; North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) ; Irish Sea and St. George's Channel ; Celtic Sea ; Bristol Channel ; North Sea ; Baltic Sea ; Bay of Biscay ; Mediterranean Sea ; Balaeric Sea (Mediterranean Sea) ; Alboran Sea (Mediterranean Sea) ; English Channel ; Barents Sea ; White Sea ; Skagerrak ; Norwegian Sea ; SeaDataNet sea areas ; SDN sea areas C16 based on IHO 23-3rd: Limits of Oceans and Seas, Special Publication 23, 3rd Edition 1953, published by the International Hydrographic Organization ;


Resource provider(s)
Geological Survey Ireland
+353-1-6782000
+353-1-6783209
https://www.gsi.ie
charise.mckeon@gsi.ie

Lineage
Data modeling used D2.8.III.21 Data Specification on Mineral resources - Technical Guidelines to generate data schema for aggregates (sand and gravel) data produced by EMODnet Geology WP7 Minerals. The INSPIRE MineralResourcesCore UML class diagam applied for the spatial data attributes includes the following feature types: MineralOccurrence, Mine, MiningActivity and MineralDepositModel.