View In:
ArcGIS JavaScript
ArcGIS Online Map Viewer
ArcGIS Earth
ArcMap
ArcGIS Pro
View Footprint In:
ArcGIS Online Map Viewer
Service Description: Bedrock is the solid rock at or below the land surface. Over much of Ireland, the bedrock is covered by materials such as soil and gravel. The Bedrock map shows what the land surface of Ireland would be made up of if these materials were removed. As the bedrock is commonly covered, bedrock maps are an interpretation of the available data.
This map shows the locations of the cross-sections lines from the GSI published paper 100k booklet series.
This map is to the scale 1:100,000. This means it should be viewed at that scale. When printed at that scale 1cm on the map relates to a distance of 1km.
It is a vector dataset. Vector data portray the world using points, lines, and polygons (areas).
The data is shown as lines. Each line holds information on the cross section name, its length and contains a link to the cross section pdf.
IE_GSI_Bedrock_Geology_Cross_Sections_100k_IE26_ITM
Legend
All Layers and Tables
Dynamic Legend
Dynamic All Layers
Layers:
Description: Bedrock is the solid rock at or below the land surface. Over much of Ireland, the bedrock is covered by materials such as soil and gravel. The Bedrock map shows what the land surface of Ireland would be made up of if these materials were removed. As the bedrock is commonly covered, bedrock maps are an interpretation of the available data. This map shows the locations of the cross-sections lines from the GSI published paper 100k booklet series.This map is to the scale 1:100,000. This means it should be viewed at that scale. When printed at that scale 1cm on the map relates to a distance of 1km.It is a vector dataset. Vector data portray the world using points, lines, and polygons (areas).The data is shown as lines. Each line holds information on the cross section name, its length and contains a link to the cross section pdf.
Service Item Id: c980cffc5a7745a9a05430030d611069
Copyright Text: Geological Survey Ireland
Spatial Reference:
2157
(2157)
Single Fused Map Cache: false
Initial Extent:
XMin: 310476.72687077435
YMin: 508473.88504846115
XMax: 850956.1975292258
YMax: 962161.0319515408
Spatial Reference: 2157
(2157)
Full Extent:
XMin: 431434.0873
YMin: 529540.777100001
XMax: 729998.8371
YMax: 941094.139900001
Spatial Reference: 2157
(2157)
Units: esriMeters
Supported Image Format Types: PNG32,PNG24,PNG,JPG,DIB,TIFF,EMF,PS,PDF,GIF,SVG,SVGZ,BMP
Document Info:
Title: IE GSI Bedrock Geology Cross sections 100k Ireland (ROI) ITM
Author:
Comments: Bedrock is the solid rock at or below the land surface. Over much of Ireland, the bedrock is covered by materials such as soil and gravel. The Bedrock map shows what the land surface of Ireland would be made up of if these materials were removed. As the bedrock is commonly covered, bedrock maps are an interpretation of the available data. This map shows the locations of the cross-sections lines from the GSI published paper 100k booklet series.This map is to the scale 1:100,000. This means it should be viewed at that scale. When printed at that scale 1cm on the map relates to a distance of 1km.It is a vector dataset. Vector data portray the world using points, lines, and polygons (areas).The data is shown as lines. Each line holds information on the cross section name, its length and contains a link to the cross section pdf.
Subject: Knowing the structure and type of bedrock is vital in many areas of our lives.
Bedrock maps help us locate groundwater sources which can be used to supply drinking water. Rock properties and structures such as faults impact how water and/or pollutants move below the surface. Drinking water can be protected by locating potential polluting operations, such as landfills, away from groundwater.
Geothermal energy is the energy stored in the form of heat beneath the surface of the earth. It can be used to supply heat and hot water. It can also be used to cool a house by removing surplus heat energy and putting it into the ground. Bedrock maps along with subsoil and aquifer maps are used to help decide if the ground under a site is suitable for geothermal energy extraction.
Engineers need this information when they are designing structures (houses, buildings, roads, etc.). They need to know the quality of the ground (strength and depth of soil, if rock and or groundwater is present) and how structures can be built in and on it. They use the information to decide the best supports and foundations needed for structures so that they don’t collapse. They can also find out if there are any underground obstructions, groundwater, faults etc which could result in additional costs or delays.
Bedrock maps are used to find sites suitable for the extraction of valuable mineral deposits. Nearly all of the metals we use today are extracted from a number of minerals that different rocks are made up of.
Category:
Keywords: Ireland,IE/GSI,Geology,bedrock,cross section,label
AntialiasingMode: None
TextAntialiasingMode: Force
Supports Dynamic Layers: true
MaxRecordCount: 2000
MaxImageHeight: 4096
MaxImageWidth: 4096
Supported Query Formats: JSON, geoJSON, PBF
Supports Query Data Elements: true
Min Scale: 0
Max Scale: 0
Supports Datum Transformation: true
Child Resources:
Info
Dynamic Layer
Supported Operations:
Export Map
Identify
QueryDomains
QueryLegends
Find
Return Updates