Index To The UK (North) Survey Collection Of Fossils.
This dataset is an index of the Survey Collection of fossils for Scotland and Northern England. It is the digital equivalent of the analogue (card) index. The latter contains some 31k records, c.70% of which has been transcribed. The continually growing Survey Collection comprises about 450k samples (including nearly 30k specimens from the John Smith Collection) which are individually registered in c.150 leather bound volumes. The Oracle relational database BGS_FOSSLOC is a first step in ascertaining what registered fossil materials exist for certain areas, who collected them and when, their geographical and stratigraphical details, the type of collection (whether from boreholes or exposures), and any covering technical reports. It is also a pathway to an extensive and unique collection of paper graphic logs, some 18k of which record annotated information on fossil occurrences and assemblages at certain stratigraphical levels (particularly in the Carboniferous) in Scotland and Northern England.
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http://www.bgs.ac.uk/collections/home.html
name: BGS Collections Homepage
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http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480362
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Data capture started mid-eighties, FOSSLOC started 1997. The intention is that this dataset will in due course be incorporated into PalaeoSaurus.
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publication
2008-06-01
Fossils
Biostratigraphy
Graphic logs
Palaeontology
Specimen collecting
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2011
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1979
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1979
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2009
SCT
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1997
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The original data are fossils, index data from these were then transferred to an Oracle database. Dataset has evolved overtime, software has changed as hardware upgraded.
publication
2011
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See the referenced specification
publication
2010-12-08
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Hardcopy - Data from Oracle tables can be supplied in hardcopy format
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United Kingdom
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British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
NOTTINGHAM
NG12 5GG
United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
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British Geological Survey
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EDINBURGH
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United Kingdom
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2022-06-21