Keeping warm: a review of deep geothermal potential of the UK

JG Gluyas, CA Adams, JP Busby… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In 2015, the primary energy demand in the UK was 202.5 million tonnes of oil equivalent
(mtoe= 848 EJ). Of this, about 58 mtoe (2.43 EJ) was used for space heating. Almost all of …

A revised correlation of Carboniferous rocks in the British Isles

CN Waters, ID Somerville, NS Jones, CJ Cleal… - 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The report revises and expands upon the 1976 and 1978 publications for the Dinantian and
Silesian, respectively, combining them into a single account of British and Irish …

Carboniferous: oblique-slip basins, intraplate magmatism and the Variscan Orogeny

AA Monaghan, D Millward, TI Kearsey, MAE Browne… - 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The fundamental global changes seen during Carboniferous times are reflected in this
account of the geological record of this Period in Scotland. Following the end-Devonian …

Dynamics of uncertainty in geological interpretation

D Polson, A Curtis - Journal of the Geological Society, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Interpretation of geological data is based on both personal judgement and previous
experience of related scenarios. In combining such information geologists employ heuristics …

Scotland's mineral, water and energy resources: building a low-carbon future

M Smith, P Butler, MR Gillespie, RS Haszeldine… - 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Scotland's Earth resources, which include minerals, hydrocarbons, water and hydro energy,
have for many centuries provided a driver for population and economic growth. The nature …

The record of Carboniferous sea-level change in low-latitude sedimentary successions from Britain and Ireland during the onset of the late Paleozoic ice age

SJ Davies - 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Carboniferous basins of Britain and Ireland were part of a shallow epi
continental seaway. Widespread shallow-and marginal-marine conditions during the Asbian …

Controls on structural styles, basin development and petroleum prospectivity in the Midland Valley of Scotland

JR Underhill, AA Monaghan, MAE Browne - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2008 - Elsevier
Integration of well-calibrated seismic data from the Firth of Forth with field and subsurface
data from neighbouring onshore areas provides important new insights into the structural …

Geochronology of Carboniferous–Permian magmatism in the Midland Valley of Scotland: implications for regional tectonomagmatic evolution and the numerical time …

AA Monaghan, RR Parrish - Journal of the Geological Society, 2006 - lyellcollection.org
Four new U–Pb isotope dilution thermal ionization mass spectrometry dates from
Carboniferous igneous rocks of the Midland Valley of Scotland are integrated with 16 …

Structural development of the Devono-Carboniferous plays of the UK North Sea

S Arsenikos, M Quinn, G Kimbell… - Geological Society …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
Decades of oil and gas exploration across the North Sea have led to a detailed
understanding of its Cenozoic–Mesozoic structure. However, the deeper basin architecture …

Late Carboniferous dextral transpressional reactivation of the crustal-scale Walls Boundary Fault, Shetland: the role of pre-existing structures and lithological …

TB Armitage, LM Watts, RE Holdsworth… - Journal of the …, 2021 - lyellcollection.org
The Walls Boundary Fault in Shetland, Scotland, formed during the Ordovician–Devonian
Caledonian orogeny and underwent dextral reactivation in the Late Carboniferous. In a well …