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The initial build covered England and Wales (Figure 1) and was funded by the Environment Agency of England and Wales (EA) in 2009–10 (Schofield et al. 2012)<ref name="Schofield">Schofield D I, Ambrose, K , Barron, A J M , Hopson, P M , Mathers, S J, Myers, A H, Waters, C N & Terrington, R L 2012. A geological fence diagram for England and Wales. BGS Open Report OR/12/081. [http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/20480/ http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/20480/]</ref>. In 2010–12 BGS funded the extension of the network of sections to Scotland, whilst additional infill sections were added in England and Wales and cross-sections were aligned along the coast to give the overall model the familiar boundary of the British coastline. Sections in northern Scotland were continued across the Minch to the Outer Hebrides and similarly to Orkney, but the coverage was not extended at the time to include Shetland or Northern Ireland.

[[Image:OR15069fig1.jpg|center|thumb|600px| '''Figure 1''' The initial fence diagram for England and Wales as delivered to the EA in 2010 (from Schofield et al. 2012)<ref name="Schofield"></ref>.]]

In 2012 additional funding from the EA enabled a few further sections to be inserted in England and Wales, whilst many others were deepened in key sedimentary basins with potential shale gas source rocks. This was part of a project to design a risk screening tool for the possible impact of shale gas activities on aquifers (Mathers et al. 2012a)<ref name="Mathers a">Mathers, S J, Bloomfield, J P Smith N J P, and Terrington R. 2012a. iHydrogeology WP1: A revised geological fence diagram for England and Wales. ''British Geological Survey Internal Report'', CR/12/056. 25pp.</ref>. The final model produced was the GB3D_v2012 dataset (Figure 2). This model covered the onshore area of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and the Isle of Man and comprised 121 cross-sections with a total linear length exceeding 20 000 km, built to depths varying between 1.5 and 6 km.

In 2014 funding from Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) resulted in two significant advances in the development of the GB3D model. Firstly, a study extended the GB3D_v2012 dataset by the incorporation of a few additional sections in England and Wales and the extension and realignment of many sections to include 305 deep stratigraphic boreholes (Mathers et al. 2014b)<ref name="Mathers b">Mathers, S J, Terrington, R L, Waters, C N, and Leslie, A G. 2012b. Model metadata report for GB3D National Bedrock Fence Diagram GB3D_v.2012. ''British Geological Survey Open Report ''OR/12/079 14pp. [http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/20686/ http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/20686/]</ref>. Subsequently, there was a study to provide a nearshore extension of the fence diagram at least 20 km offshore (Figure 3), with an additional 46 sections and 32 key offshore wells. The updated GB3D model was released in February 2015, accompanied by brief accounts of the regional geology of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, also funded by RWM Ltd., which were published in 2014 and are available for download at [http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/ukgeology/regionalGeology/home.html http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/ukgeology/regionalGeology/home.html ].

[[Image:OR15069fig2.jpg|center|thumb|600px| '''Figure 2''' The completed GB3D_v2012 model for Great Britain from the southwest.]]

[[Image:OR15069fig3.jpg|center|thumb|600px| '''Figure 3''' The completed GB3D_v2014 model for Great Britain from the southwest showing an increased density of sections and the nearshore extension.]]

The current study, funded by RWM Ltd, extends the fence diagram model to Northern Ireland and its surrounding nearshore area, to provide a network of subsurface information comparable to England and Wales, released as UK3D_v2015.

At all stages the model has been constructed using the Geological Surveying and Investigation in 3D software (Kessler & Mathers, 2004<ref name="Kessler 2004">Kessler, H, and Mathers S J. 2004. Maps to models. ''Geoscientist ''14/10 4-6. [http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/983/ http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/983/]</ref>; Kessler et al. 2009<ref name="Kessler 2009">Kessler, H, Mathers, S J, and H-G. Sobisch. 2009. The capture and dissemination of integrated 3D geospatial knowledge at the British Geological Survey using GSI3D software and methodology. ''Computers & Geosciences'', 35, 1311–1321. {{doi|10.1016/j.cageo.2008.04.005%3B}}[http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/7207/1/Kessler_CG_GSI3D_article_final.pdf http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/7207/1/Kessler_CG_GSI3D_article_final.pdf]</ref>). The methodology and sources used in the construction of the GB3D dataset have been thoroughly documented by Mathers et al. (2012b<ref name="Mathers b"></ref>; 2014a<ref name="Mathers 2014a">Mathers, S J, Terrington, R L, Waters, C N, and Leslie, A G. 2014a. GB3D — a framework for the bedrock geology of Great Britain. ''Geoscience Data Journal'' 3, 9. </ref> and b<ref name="Mathers 2014b">Mathers, S J, Terrington, R L, Waters, C N, and Thorpe, S. 2014b. The construction of a bedrock geology model for England and Wales. ''British Geological Survey Open Report'', OR/14/039. 23pp. [http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/507670/ http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/507670/][http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/507670/ ] </ref>) and in this report.

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