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Atemmpting to identify outcropping locations of specific geology.

  • 14-02-2013 7:30pm
    #1
    dr gonzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭


    Hey all, not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but it does seem to be the most appropriate.

    Im an archaeology postgrad and as part of my thesis I have to trying and narrow down possible source locations of a specific geology (it is the objects produced from this material that I am studying). However, geology, and geography, are not areas I've really had much opportunity to study before now and I having a little trouble. The logical first step, I thought, was the GSI website but I find it pretty impenetrable. I'm not sure what layers to be using in the GIS system, and more importantly, how to identify where the geology I want is showing up on it.

    If any had any advice for using the system, or even had a different method I could use I would be in your debt!

    Many thanks guys


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  • #2
    AshAdele
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭AshAdele


    http://spatial.dcenr.gov.ie/ExplorationAndMining/SpatialViewer/index.html

    If you use the above address it will bring you to the Opals viewer run by the GSI.
    you can turn on and off layers (bedrock 500K is geology) and using the information button (i) can click anywhere and it will give you the name of the geological formation you are looking for.


  • #3
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    This is the Tellus Border data viewer: http://www.tellusborder.eu/Tellus+Border+Viewer.htm it'll give you different spatial data for geophysical and geochemical datasets (e.g. magnetometry, resistivity, conductivity, U/Th/K, surface and stream sediment elemental data etc...) for Northern Ireland and the border counties, Sligo and Leitrim. It's probably best you speak to a geologist as well regarding the kind of things you should be looking at.


  • #4
    the keen edge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    What is the specific geology that you are trying to pin down?


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