BGS Petrological Collection Database (Britrocks)
Britrocks
The Britrocks database provides an index to the BGS mineralogical & petrological collection. The computer database covers samples in the UK onshore mapping collection together with world wide reference minerals and the Museum Reserve collection. Currently circa 200k out of circa 300k samples are recorded in the computer database. A collection audit is ongoing, so availability of any particular sample is not guaranteed. The first England and Wales collection sample is from circa 1877, Threshthwaite Comb, Cumbria (collected by the Reverend Clifton Ward). The addition of new samples, transfer of records from registers and updates of existing records is ongoing on a regular basis. Internet access to the database is provided on the BGS web site.
dataset
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/technologies/databases/bgs-rock-collections/
name: BRITROCKS: mineralogy and petrology collections database - Homepage
function: information
https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/britrocks/britrocks.cfc?method=searchBritrocks
name: BGS rock collections - Search form
function: search
http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex/home.html?theme=collections
name: BGS GeoIndex Collections
function: search
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480097
eng
Spatial precision varies from 1m to 1 km where estimated by reference to BGS gazetteer. In the database incomplete validation and data standards have allowed records of variable completeness, quality and accuracy to be present.
geoscientificInformation
publication
2008-06-01
Petrology
revision
2011
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creation
1979
WORLD [id=100000]
1877
creation
1986
irregular
Data as provided by BGS sample collectors, mostly geological mappers, then copied into paper registers by petrographers and later re-copied into electronic database.
publication
2011
false
See the referenced specification
publication
2010-12-08
false
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Hardcopy - Paper
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