2,039 datasets found

No longer exists - now part of GeoSureAn assessment of the potential for a geological deposit to shrink or swell with changes in moisture content. A characteristic usually of...

Data on borehole/wellstats and design summaries for Bishket, Kyrghystan.

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 reports and macroseismic questionnaires for recent British earthquakes. As of 2003, data collection for this dataset is mostly digital.

This is a collection of extracts from British newspapers describing earthquakes, mostly British. It contains original clippings, photocopies, and in a few cases manual...

Collection of annual publications from the global network of magnetic observatories. They typically contain tabulations of hourly, monthly and annual mean values of the...

Annual means of the geomagnetic field vector components from observatories around the world, from 1840 to the present day. At present there are about 160 observatories. These...

Collection of reports, notebooks interpretations, plans and other data for Great Britain received from external organisations that are not part of other collections. Covers a...

The database contains scanned images of borehole and site investigation records acquired by BGS in its role as the National Geological Records Centre. The first phase of the...

The LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) holds information about the sample preparation and chemical analysis of samples (from internal and external customers)...

The Britrocks database provides an index to the BGS mineralogical & petrological collection. The computer database covers samples in the UK onshore mapping collection...

This index is a list of specimens and slides taken from the John Smith Collection and placed in the Type and Stratigraphical (T&S) Collection of Scotland and Northern...

This dataset (GSE_REFERENCES) is a list of specimens held in the Type and Stratigraphical Collection of Scotland and Northern England, and the publications in which they are...

Structural geology data obtained by Land Survey staff during their mapping work. Originally designed for the Mid-Wales Mapping Programme but subsequently used by other teams....

Surface and borehole information for a nuclear waste site investigation programme at Altnabreac, Northern Scotland. Dataset includes geological mapping, surface geophysics,...

Recordings of earthquakes and other signals (such as quarry blasts, explosions, sonic booms and collapses) made by a network of seismometers and similar sensors across the UK....

Earthquake catalogue of all known UK events until 1969. The catalogue covers the offshore areas as well as mainland UK, covering an area between 10 degrees West to 4 degrees...

Paper records and photos used to create the Nottingham Caves digital register and maps. Includes archival material of the caves known to BGS, around northern and central...

Compiled by the Minerals Intelligence section of the Survey from 1918 to 1985. Comprises around 250,000 card entrys that refer to published articles on mineral topics world-wide.

Contains the administrative and historical records of the Survey from 1835. The archive contains official files, correspondence, maps, photographs and many items dealing with...