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Data held in the BGS Laboratory Information Management System

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

UKGEOS Cheshire Ince Marshes BHA-101 Core Scanning Dataset

A core scanning dataset from the BHA-101 drill core that was drilled onshore at the Ince Marshes site near the village of Elton, Cheshire, UK as part of the UK Geoenergy Observatories (UKGEOS)...

London Earth Topsoil Chemical Data

The London Earth data are part of the Geochemical Baseline Survey of the Environment (G-BASE) dataset, a nation-wide project to determine the distribution of chemical elements in the surface...

Ellesmere Port-1 Core Scanning Dataset

A core scanning dataset from part of the Ellesmere Port-1 drill core that was drilled for unconventional hydrocarbons in 2014. Approximate 40 m of core from the Bowland Shale Formation in the...

Creep rig mechanical data from an olivine bicrystal experiment (NERC Grant NE/M000060/1)

Mechanical datasets of a creep rig experiment which quantified grain boundary sliding in an olivine bicrystal sample. A single test was performed for 4 x 104 s at a maximum temperature of 1400 °C....

Digital Geological Map Data of Great Britain - 25k (DiGMapGB-25) Bedrock version 2

Data identifying landscape areas (shown as polygons) attributed with geological names. The scale of the data is 1:25 000 scale providing bedrock geology. Onshore coverage is partial and BGS has no...

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 interpretation of the...

Land Cover Scotland (LCS) 1988

Land Cover Scotland (LCS) 1988 was the first ever national (air-photo) census of land cover in Scotland to describe the principal features and characteristics of the countryside. It was produced by...

Marine Habitat Classification for Britain and Ireland

This site presents the national classification of sea floor marine habitats for Britain and Ireland. The expandable classification hierarchy below lists all types, from broad habitat level to...

Guardianship under the Mental Health Act, 1983

Information on the use of Guardianship under Section 7 and 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983, during the reporting period 1 April - 31 March each year. It contains information on new, continuing and...

Environmental DNA decay rate data from a meta-analysis of papers published between 2012 and 2020

Data on environmental decay rates of aquatic eDNA (environmental DNA) were extracted from papers used in a systematic review and meta-analysis. The water type, equipment used, DNA type,...

SDNPA - Landscape Character Assessment

The SDNPA Landscape Character Assessment was originally prepared for the South Downs Joint Committee, in partnership with the Countryside Agency, English Heritage, Hampshire County Council, West...

BGS offshore activities and samples Web service

This Web service provides layers which show metadata relating to offshore sample collection and other activities undertaken by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and its predecessors. The layers...

MPS Dedicated Ward Officer Abstractions and Strengths

The Dedicated Ward Officer Abstraction dataset contains aggregated data to Team level, showing the number of minutes of abstractions for each team on a per month basis. The following fields are...

Coastal Physiographic Features - Coastal Lagoons

This shapefile shows the distribution of the Annex I habitat, coastal lagoons around the UK. Coastal lagoons are areas of shallow, coastal salt water, wholly or partially separated from the sea by...

Illegal Dumping Incidents

This data provides details of Illegal Dumping incidents that the Environment Agency have dealt with along with the date and area in which they took place. The data also gives details of the waste...

Oil palm frond litter decomposition rates in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) plots, Kandista and Ujun Tanjung estates, Indonesia

Data comprise weight (grams) of dried oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) frond litter remaining in a variety of litter bags after 10, 30, 60 and 90 days buried under the litter layer in oil palm...

Wild rodent tracking and gut microbiome data, Holly Hill, Wytham Woods, UK, 2018-2019

This data set is a combination of trapping data, tracking data, vegetation/habitat data and data on the gut microbiome composition of wild rodents caught in 4 ha study site in Holly Hill in Wytham...

benefit claimants - working age client group

Benefit Claimants data for different types of Geographies

Marine borehole logs, data and materials from around the UK (1969 onwards)

BGS has drilled almost 600 boreholes to prove seismic interpretations of the marine Quaternary geology and bedrock from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). The collection also includes additional...