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Geological Conservation Review Sites (Scotland)
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.
For more information visit https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/protected-areas-and-species/protected-areas/local-designations/geological-conservation-review-sites
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2024-11-22
- Identifier
- https://www.nature.scot / GCR
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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Government category list
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Environmental protection
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Geology
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Soil
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Protected sites
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Available under the UK Open Government Licence https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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no limitation
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 5 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Extent
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GB-SCT
ISO3166-2 2011-05-01
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- Begin
- 1991
- End
- 2014
Temporal extent
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.4
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
1.0
GeoJSON
ESRI File geodatabase
Geopackage
GML
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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Boundaries captured from paper maps to OSMM.
Metadata
- File identifier
- a0d0ad1b-6c08-4621-9308-72b3fe7e8ca9 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2025-01-08T13:11:34.228Z
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Organisation name
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NatureScot
- Position name
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Data Supply
- Electronic mail address
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data_supply@nature.scot supply@nature.sco data_supply@nature.scot
- Role
- Point of contact
