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Marine Quaternary Map - UK Waters - 1:1M scale
This is a digital version of the paper based 1:1M scale Offshore Quaternary map, North and South sheets. Customers should be aware that, given the age of the paper based maps,... -
Permeability Dataset for Great Britain (Merged)
The data comprises four GIS layers representing the permeability of geological deposits for Great Britain (bedrock, superficial, artificial and mass movement deposits). The... -
Historic Land Use associated with Mineral Planning Permissions for England
Between 2001 and 2003 BGS received approximately 1400 1:25 000 paper maps and associated card index from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now Department for Communities... -
National Soil-Parent Material
The National Soil Parent Material dataset is a GIS describing the geological material from which topsoils and subsoils (A and B horizons) develop (i.e. from the base of... -
Geometry and Dynamics of Large Ice Caps in the Canadian High Arctic
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. This proposal addresses the geometry and flow dynamics of three large ice caps in the Canadian arctic islands, with implications for glacier mass... -
Biodiversity Change in the Ordovician of the British Isles
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. The most sustained steep increase in marine biodiversity took place during the Ordovician. The variety of biogeographical and palaeoecological... -
Holocene palaeoceanography of shelf seas: long-term seasonal stratification dynamics
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Seasonal stratification is a widespread phenomenon of shelf seas which influences climate both regionally and through land sea heat exchange and... -
An Investigation of the Rheology and Flow Behaviour of Vesicular Magmas and Lavas
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. We aim to conduct an in-depth study of the rheology and flow dynamics of foams and bubble suspensions in Newtonian liquids with gas volume... -
An Experimental Study of the Stability of Hydrous Phases at High Pressures...
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. To determine the p-t stability of hydrous phases in ultramafic compositions in subduction zones, and the conditions at which h2o is released from... -
Characterisation of palaeo-precipitation from variations in the structure of...
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. To determine the seasonality and inter-annual variability of rainfall from the variations in annual luminescence laminations for multiple samples... -
Biomolecular Achaeology of Ancient Tuberculosis in Britain and Europe
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Tuberculosis (TB) is a reemerging infection that was also common in the past in Britain. Poverty, drug resistance, the HIV, and migration are key... -
The Dalradian 'Snowball Earth' - Use of Stable Isotopes to Correlate Glacial...
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - Data archived in BGS Digital Archive. The 'snowball Earth' theory has been the subject of widespread media attention, particularly its lively defence by... -
Hydrogeology Reports and Maps for Various Countries
Collection of hydrogeological reports and maps for various different overseas countries derived from various sources. -
Geological interpreted superficial deposits thickness models version 2.1,...
A superficial thickness model covering England Scotland and Wales. The model is derived by direct modelling (natural neighbour interpolation) of BGS Borehole records and BGS... -
Datastore for BGS Digital Field Data Capture System (BGS SIGMAmobile)
The datastore for the BGS digital field data capture system contains databases that have been collected by field geologists and geoscientists using the MIDAS Tablet PCs. The... -
GeoSure Basic
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... -
Industrial Mineral Assessment (IMAU) Report Maps
Many mineral resource maps for areas of Great Britain at scales of 1:25 000 and 1:50 000 have been produced by the British Geological Survey and its predecessors. Many of these... -
BGS Geology - 625k (DiGMapGB-625) Bedrock version 5
Data identifying landscape areas (shown as polygons) attributed with geological names and rock type descriptions. The scale of the data is 1:625 000, providing a simplified... -
Mineral resource polygons central belt of Scotland version 1
The British Geological Survey (BGS) was awarded a grant from the Scottish Government Aggregates Levy Fund in 2007 to provide a comprehensive, relevant and accessible information... -
Variability in the El Nino-Southern Oscillation through a Glacial-Interglacial Cycle
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most potent source of interannual climate variability. Uncertainty surrounding the impact of...