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Foreign sliced rock collection

The foreign sliced rock or 'F' collection consists of about 10, 000 specimens and thin sections, cited by their 'F' numbers. These include material archived from recent overseas projects and much...

Waste Composition Analysis - Flats

Analysis of tonnages of household waste presented in recycling, food waste, garden waste and residual waste bins. Based on sample survey bin contents from a number of flats. Includes a comparison...

Land Survey Archives (LSA): Scotland and Northern England

The Land Survey Archives consists of records of the Geological Survey in Scotland for permanent retention dating from 1860s onwards. The collection comprises geologists' field notebooks,...

Hillsborough Disclosure document index

This dataset provides an index of the documents relating to the Hillsborough tragedy as disclosed by the Hillsborough Independent Panel in conjunction with their Report into how the disclosed...

Constituent concentrations of leachates from standardised leaching tests using deionised water and seawater in contact with legacy waste materials collected from coastal areas of the UK between 2020 and 2024

This dataset contains the results of British Standard leaching tests (BS EN 12457-2:2002) in which deionised water or seawater were mixed with different types of waste, under standardised...

Model estimates of topsoil invertebrates [Countryside Survey]

Countryside Survey topsoil invertebrate data is representative of 0 - 8 cm soil depth and includes Total catch, Mite:Springtail ratio, Number of broad taxa and Shannon diversity. For invertebrate...

Model estimates of topsoil moisture [Countryside Survey]

Topsoil moisture data - gravimetric moisture content (%). Data is representative of 0 - 15 cm soil depth. Cores from 1098 plots within 256 1km by 1km squares were measured in 1998 and 2614 plots...

Database of samples collected from carbonatite-hosted rare earth element (REE) deposits in Finland, China, and Angola (2023-2024)

Database of samples collected or utilised in the project SCREED: Supergene enrichment of carbonatite-hosted REE deposits. Samples were collected from Sokli (Finland), Miaoya (China), and Longonjo...

Images of extant and fossil euglenids (light microscope-LM, scanning electron microscope-SEM, transmission electron microscope-TEM) (NERC Grant NE/R001324/1)

Extant euglenids from cultures LM and SEM images of living euglenids and euglenids post acetolysis Fossil material (recovered by standard palynological analysis) LM, SEM and TEM images of fossil...

Waste Composition Analysis - Houses

Analysis of tonnages of household waste presented in recycling, food waste, garden waste and residual waste bins. Based on sample survey bin contents from a number of houses carried out in November...

Governance Records

Agendas, minutes and materials for HS2 Governance Bodies

Model estimates of topsoil nutrients [Countryside Survey]

Topsoil nutrient data - total nitrogen (N) concentration (%), C:N ratio and Olsen-Phosphorus (mg/kg). Data is representative of 0 - 15 cm soil depth. Cores from 256 1km x 1km squares across Great...

Borehole logs from a site investigation of slag deposits in Consett Co. Durham, UK (NERC Grant NE/P019943/2)

Three borehole logs are presented that describe the material excavated from a slag deposit in Consett Co. Durham (ad pdf files). The boreholes were created by GeoSonic Ltd commissioned by Cardiff...

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...

Microplastics in sediment cores data from the UK continental shelf and slope 2017

This dataset contains two CSV files. One CSV file reports locations and technical details for the cores, along with their slices, subsamples and the number of microplastic particles and fibres...

Microplastics in sediment cores data from the UK continental shelf and slope 2017

This dataset contains two CSV files. One CSV file reports locations and technical details for the cores, along with their slices, subsamples and the number of microplastic particles and fibres...

Recycling Banks

Location of Recycling Banks in Oxford and the materials they accept

Recycling centres in the London Borough of Sutton

Location of recycling centres in Sutton and materials accepted for recycling.

Images from The Mary Rose (Unpath'd Waters), 2007-2011

This collection comprises photographs taken between 2007 and 2011 from the artefacts dataset of material recovered from the Mary Rose wreck site. The Mary Rose was the flagship of King...

Radiogenic and stable isotope data (NERC grant NE/L004011/1)

The dataset contains three subsets: 1) W isotope data for reference materials and geological samples, 2) Pb isotope data for reference materials and geological samples and 3) Mo isotope data for...