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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 databases replicate (in...

Coal Authority Seismic Survey Data

This data set is an archive of original data for the seismic reflection surveys conducted by the National Coal Board (NCB) and its successor, British Coal Corporation (BCC). The data consists of...

ShapeCalc - 2D-3D shape projection tool and underlying database of 2D width/length distributions

ShapeCalc is an Excel-based tool that uses 2D crystal intersection widths and lengths to estimate 3D crystal shape. ShapeCalc provides 3D (S:I:L) shape estimates for 2D width-length (w-l) input...

Marine geophysical and seismic data from around the UK (1966 onwards)

The British Geological Survey hold a collection of data recorded during marine geophysical surveys which includes digital data and analogue records. These data result from approximately 350,000...

Marine survey data from around the UK (1966 onwards)

This dataset is the complete collection of the British Geological Survey (BGS) held Marine Survey data. The data held includes digital data and analogue records, plus associated physical sample...

BGS offshore survey data Web service

This Web service provides layers which show data relating to offshore survey activities undertaken by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and its predecessors. The layers are polygon, line and...

GiGL Spaces to Visit

Update October 2025: GiGL are no longer providing this dataset as Open Data. We are currently reviewing our approach to publishing open data, and this includes how the datasets have been used, and...

Fareshare in Leeds

Before Covid-19, FareShare UK regularly distributed surplus food to third sector organisations across Leeds from their warehouses in Barnsley and Beeston. Once lockdown measures began in the w/c...

Asbestos Notifications System (ANS)

Notification is required of particular work, requiring an asbestos licence, under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (and previous regulations). This database stores information on...

Particle tracking model output simulating floating marine litter in the Bay of Bengal, 2018 to 2019

These data are particle positions and dates/times which are output from an OceanParcels particle tracking model simulating likely pathways of floating marine macro-litter in the Bay of Bengal...

Atmospheric gas and vegetation survey data from Parsonage Down, UK, in 2014

This dataset contains greenhouse gas flux data and vegetation survey data from an experiment based at Parsonage Down, UK. The vegetation survey comprises total species percentage cover and species...

Engineering Properties: Bulking

This dataset is a characterisation of the soil and rocks and the potential bulking factor (likely excavated volume increases) at Formation (local to regional) level for Great Britain. The data is...

Geological Maps of Ireland (including Northern Ireland pre-1922)

A collection of 1:63 360 and 1:10 560 geological maps of Ireland. The maps were firstly created by the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom and Ireland up until 1905 when the Geological Survey...

UKCCSRC Call 1 project poster: Flexible CCS Network Development (FleCCSnet), CSLF Call project poster reception, London, 27.06.16

This poster on the UKCCSRC Call 1 project Flexible CCS Network Development (FleCCSnet) was presented at the CSLF Call project poster reception, London, 27.06.16. Grant number: UKCCSRC-C1-40. The...

Monthly magnetic data from the Greenwich Magnetic Observatory Yearbooks (1841 – 1925)

This dataset contains monthly mean magnetic data from the Greenwich Observatory from 1841 to 1925. This dataset is the result of report https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536965/ and is the...

Mineral Planning Permissions for England 1997-2007

This dataset provides digital spatial information on the extent of planning permissions for the extraction of minerals across Great Britain. The dataset shows the extent of all known extant and...

Planktonic foraminiferal census counts and counts of Ice Rafted Debris (IRD) from sediment samples collected during Ocean Drilling Programme (OPD) leg 162 site 983 (NERC grant NE/L006405/1)

These data are described fully in the following publication: S. Barker, J. Chen, X. Gong, L. Jonkers, G. Knorr, D. Thornalley, Icebergs not the trigger for North Atlantic cold events. Nature 520,...

Marine Samples and Cores

This is the collection of cores and samples held by BGS for the sea areas around the UK. It includes material collected by BGS during its mapping projects and material donated to BGS by other...

Onshore borehole collection

The British Geological Survey onshore borehole collection database of core and sample types and depths contains records of over 15 000 onshore boreholes drilled in the UK by BGS, commercial and...

Palaeohydrogeological Data Analysis and Model Testing Database

PADAMOT (Palaeohydrogeological Data Analysis and Model Testing) is a database being built and populated as part of the PADAMOT project which is part of the 5th Framework R&D Programme of the...