OR/14/045 Modelled surfaces/volumes

Price, S J, and Waters, C N. 2014. Model metadata report for Swansea-Neath-Port-Talbot. British Geological Survey Internal Report, OR/14/045.

The units included in the 3D geological model are shown in Table 1.

Table 1 Geological units included in the Swansea-Neath-Port-Talbot 3D geological model
Model unit code	Lex	RCS	Comment
mgr	MGR	N/A	Made Ground. Undifferentiated. Lithology not defined. Only significant areas of Made Ground proved in boreholes included.
bsa	BSA	S	Blown Sand.
alv	ALV	ZCS	Alluvium of the Tawe and Neath rivers. Undifferentiated.
peat_1	PEAT	P	Peat at Crymlyn Bog and surrounding area.
btfd	BTFU	SCZ	Beach and Tidal Flat Deposits combined.
peat_2	PEAT	P	Peat at subcrop in Baglan area.
gfdu	GFDU	SV	Glaciofluvial Deposits. Includes areas of combined Glaciofluvial Sheet Deposits and Glaciofluvial Ice Contact Deposits.
glld	GLLD	CZS	Glaciolacustrine Deposits in the Swansea and Neath Valleys.
till	TILL	CSVL	Till. Undifferentiated.
bedrock	N/A	ROCK	Bedrock at geological rockhead beneath natural and artificial superficial deposits. Base bedrock represents base of model only.

The geology of the Swansea-Neath-Port-Talbot area is described in (Waters et al., 2005 ^[1]; Waters et al., 2006 ^[2]).

References

↑ WATERS, C N, PRICE, S J, DAVIES, J, TYE, A M, BROWN, S E, and SCHOFIELD, D I. 2005. Urban geology of Swansea-Neath-Port-Talbot. 7-22 in Urban Geology in Wales. BASSETT, M G, DEISLER, V K, and NICHOL, D (editors). 2.
↑ WATERS, C N, PRICE, S J, HAWKINS, M P, MARCHANT, A P, FIORINI, E, BROWN, S E, TYE, A M, FLEMING, C, DAVIES, J, SCHOFIELD, D I, BARCLAY, W J, and GARCIA-BAJO, M. 2006. A background to urban geoscience studies in the Swansea-Neath-Port-Talbot area. British Geological Survey, Internal Report, IR/05/073R (Keyworth, Nottingham).