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British Geological Survey  (BGS)

Founded in 1835, the British Geological Survey (BGS) is the world's oldest national geological survey and the United Kingdom's premier centre for earth science information and expertise.

The BGS provides expert services and impartial advice in all areas of geoscience. Our client base is drawn from the public and private sectors both in the UK and internationally.

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374 datasets found.

  • The BGS Collection Of Geologist's Field Notebooks, Section Books and Field Record Cards.

     Updated: 26 Feb 2013
    Publisher:  British Geological Survey
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    Manuscript notebooks, section books and field record cards containing detailed information gathered by the Survey geologists (or other recognised geologists) from various sources as part...

  • Geotechnical Database

     Updated: 26 Feb 2013
    Publisher:  British Geological Survey
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    The Geotechnical Database contains information about site investigation reports, boreholes and samples. It contains geotechnical measurements taken over borehole intervals and on samples....

  • GeoSure Insurance Data

     Updated: 10 May 2013
    Publisher:  British Geological Survey
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    The GeoSure data sets and reports from the British Geological Survey provide information about potential ground movement or subsidence in a helpful and user-friendly format. The reports...

  • 1:1.5M scale 'Geology Through Climate Change' Poster Map Covering UK Mainland, Northern Ireland and Eire.

     Updated: 28 Feb 2013
    Publisher:  British Geological Survey
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    1:1.5M scale 'Geology Through Climate Change' poster map covering UK mainland, Northern Ireland and Eire. This poster map shows the rocks of Britain and Ireland in a new way, grouped and...

  • 10k Sheet Data Files.

     Updated: 26 Feb 2013
    Publisher:  British Geological Survey
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    An important paper archive of a wide variety of miscellaneous geological information organised on the basis of its location within 1:10 000 scale geological map sheet areas in Great...
  • WMS

    BGS Detailed Bedrock and Superficial geology (OGC WxS)

     Updated: 28 Feb 2013
    Publisher:  British Geological Survey
    Provider:  British Geological Survey
    This Web Map Service (WMS) serves geological data from the 1: 50 000 DiGMapGB data covering the whole of the United Kingdom (Digital Geological Map Data of Great Britain 50k -...
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  • Superficial Deposits Thickness Models, SDTM

     Updated: 11 May 2013
    Publisher:  British Geological Survey
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    A series of tiled models of superficial thickness covering the UK. The models are derived by direct modelling (natural neighbour interpolation) of BGS Borehole records and BGS Digmap. For...

  • Aquifer Properties, Database Of Physical Properties Of Aquifers In England And Wales.

     Updated: 26 Feb 2013
    Publisher:  British Geological Survey
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    Data on the physical properties (transmissivity, storage coefficient, porosity and permeability) of aquifers in England and Wales. Compiled by BGS staff from paper records of field and...

  • Copy Borehole Logs.

     Updated: 26 Feb 2013
    Publisher:  British Geological Survey
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    This document data set contains paper copies of selected geophysical borehole logs made from the master data set held by the BGS National Geological Records Centre (NGRC) at Keyworth....

  • Groundwater Level Archive

     Updated: 26 Feb 2013
    Publisher:  British Geological Survey
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    Database of water levels in selected observation boreholes: weekly and monthly measurements.Dataset represents only 5% of current monitoring networks run by UK measuring agencies....