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Geological Conservation Review Sites

The Geological Conservation Review (GCR) is the register of known nationally and internationally important Earth science (geological and geomorphological) sites in Great Britain.

The GCR underpins designation of Earth science features in Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). The majority of GCR sites, therefore, now have statutory protection through designation as notified features in SSSIs. In these cases the GCR site boundary indicates the extent of the Earth science interest within the SSSI. Some GCR sites, however, remain unnotified and are known as unnotified GCR sites.

National Park Authorities and some Local Authorities treat these as candidate SSSIs and afford them the same protection as SSSIs. Some unnotified GCR sites are also Local Geodiversity Sites (LGS), and as such they are afforded levels of protection appropriate to locally important sites (though they are, themselves, considered to be of national or international importance).

The remaining unnotified GCR sites have no statutory protection, although they are considered to be sites of national or international importance. Initially developed between 1977 and 1990, the GCR network is periodically updated and this dataset is subject to change. Boundaries of GCR sites are often not co-incident with SSSIs.

Captured to old version of OSMM (the same one as SSSIs) so will need to be adjusted to PAI.

 
Citation proposal
Geographic Information Group (Scottish Natural Heritage). Geological Conservation Review Sites. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/a0d0ad1b-6c08-4621-9308-72b3fe7e8ca9

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Date ( Revision )
2009-08-04
Date ( Revision )
2012-10-15
Date ( Revision )
2014-01-21
Date ( Revision )
2014-05-01
Date ( Revision )
2018-02-08
Identifier
http://www.snh.gov.uk / GCR
Presentation form
mapDigital Digital map

  Principal investigator

Scottish Natural Heritage - Rachel Wignall (Earth Science )  
Scottish Natural Heritage INVERNESS IV3 8NW United Kingdom

  01463 725000  

  Custodian

Scottish Natural Heritage - Geographic Information Group (Geographic Systems & Data Officer )  
Great Glen House Inverness IV3 8NW

  01463 725000  
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
Government category list
  • Environmental protection
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Geology , Protected sites , Soil
Use limitation
You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: (Copyright Scottish Natural Heritage) Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (year)
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Available under an OS Open Data licence www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendata/licence, Note that this data is available to view or download on SNH website see: www.snh.gov.uk/publications-data-and-research/snhi-information-service
Use limitation
no limitation
Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Distance
5  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
GB-SCT

 

Date ( Revision )
2011-05-01

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Reference system identifier
EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.4
Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )

  • GML (3.2.1 )

  • Mapinfo MIF/MID (4.5 )

  • KML (0 )

OnLine resource
ESRI Shapefile (EPSG:27700)  
OnLine resource
Google Earth KML 2.1 (EPSG:4326, simplified geometry)  
OnLine resource
GML 3.1.1 (zipped, EPSG:4258)  
OnLine resource
MapInfo MIF (EPSG:27700)  
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Statement
Boundaries captured from paper maps to OSMM.\\n\\nBoundaries of site nos 935 and 2437 amended for topological correctness.

Metadata

File identifier
a0d0ad1b-6c08-4621-9308-72b3fe7e8ca9   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2019-12-03
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

  Point of contact

Scottish Natural Heritage - Geographic Information Group (Data supply )  

 
 

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