The Lower Palaeozoic igneous rocks and Quaternary deposits of the area between Haweswater and Shap (part of Sheets 30 and 39, England and Wales)

[摘要] As part of the secondment of BGS staff to SEPA to help implement the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in Scotland, BGS have been asked to provide an approximate outline of the extent of historical mining in Scotland. This will be used to help characterize pressures on Scottish groundwater as part of the initial characterization of groundwater bodies for the WFD. Initial characterization has to be completed by December 2004; for bodies deemed to be at risk there will be further characterization after 2004. A team of BGS geologists carried out the work during September 2003. The aim of the study was: ��To delineate the extent of known and inferred historical and current shallow and deep

[发布机构] British Geological Survey

[学科分类] 地球科学(综合)