Legacy BGS geothermal models: depth to the top early Carboniferous limestone (hot sedimentary aquifers) in northern and southern England

This raster dataset represents the depth in metres to the top of the early Carboniferous limestone (ECL) over the Northern and Southern Provinces in Great Britain. The raster grid is provided at a 2500 m resolution. The layer can be used to identify prospective geothermal heat resources, such as areas with deep burial depths beneath thick Permian-Mesozoic sequences, as in the Cheshire Basin, and the flanks of the East Irish Sea and Southern North Sea basins; or beneath thick later Carboniferous strata, as in the Stoke-on-Trent area.