Western Solway Firth benthic substrate map

• Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
• Last updated: 14 June 2018
• Topic: Environment
• Licence: Open Government Licence

Summary

The purpose of this piece of work was to provide additional information on known areas of scar ground in the Solway Firth. It was found that the location of the scar ground had altered considerably from previous predictions. Acoustic techniques were used and grab samples collected and analysed.

Additional information source:

Envision (1999). Solway Firth - Marine SAC mapping subtidal sediments and scars. Unpublished report to Scottish Natural Heritage.

Allen, Cutts, Elliot, Hemingway & Read (1999). Solway Firth: Intertidal Scar Grounds, Biotope mapping. Unpublished report to Scottish Natural Heritage.

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GB100101.zip	N/A	14 June 2018	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2018-06-14
• Access contraints: No limitations
• Harvest GUID: c02c4689-db44-484d-8b00-3bfdb8aa13e3
• Extent: Latitude: 54.853362° to 54.821037°
• Extent: Longitude: -3.766359° to -3.662311°
• Dataset reference date: 1998-12-31 (publication)
• Responsible party: Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC (owner)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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