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Map based index (GeoIndex) opencast coal prospecting areas

The map based index includes outlines for some 8,000 opencast coal prospecting sites dating from the 1940s until the mid 1990s. The index leads to information on the records of some 1 million...

Interpreted seismic and well data

This dataset represents a project-based collection of seismic interpretations of 2D and 3D commercial seismic reflection data. These data are integrated in a relational database in ORACLE in a data...

Microstructural measurements of mafic igneous rocks (NERC Grant NE/N009894/1)

Measurements of the shape and size of plagioclase and olivine grains in a suite of dolerite dykes and sills. The olivine data refer to the family of sills forming the Little Minch Sill Complex...

Tidal Generation Ltd (TGL) Sampling Survey 2007/9_TGL: Orkney Tidal Generation Project (04/May/2007 to 11/May/2007)

This marine sampling survey took place in May 2007. Tidal Generation Ltd (TGL) contracted the British Geological Survey (BGS) to undertake seabed rock coring at a tidal generation test site in...

Map based index (GeoIndex) fossil specimens

This layer of the GeoIndex shows the localities for which details of identified fossil specimens in the BGS Biostratigraphy Museum are databased. Only Ordovician and Silurian specimens listed...

UKCCSRC Call 1 project paper: Carbon dioxide storage in the Captain Sandstone aquifer: determination of in situ stresses and fault-stability analysis

Peer reviewed paper published in the journal Petroleum Geoscience - the paper describes work carried-out on behalf of the 'Fault seal controls on CO2 storage capacity in aquifers' project funded by...

BGS BritPits version 4

The BGS BritPits version 4 is derived from a BGS database, which contains records of mineral workings covering the Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. The coverage...

Fault Seal Controls on Storage Capacity - presentation presented at the '1st Young North Sea CCS Researchers meeting', Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The data consists of a presentation presented at the '1st Young North Sea CCS Researchers meeting', Rotterdam, Netherlands, 18th June 2014. The presentation describes work carried-out on behalf of...

Scottish quarries database

Information from the Scottish quarries database has now been incorporated into the BritPits (British Pits) database Contains the site and rock type information of working and disused hard rock...

Compilation of Mineral and Glass Compositions erupted at Villarrica volcano, Chile (NERC Grant NE/S007458/1)

A compilation of mineral and glass compositions erupted at Villarrica volcano, Chile, measured by electron microprobe. Data are sourced from published articles, theses and unpublished works....

Asbestos Licence Database

Database was set up in 1997 to record details of all asbestos licences and applications for asbestos licences since 1984. It contains 5543 records for current and previous licence holders – 479...

1995 Purbeck Marine Research Unit, Canford School, Handfast Point to Ballard Point, Ross Coral Mapping Project

These records all relate to "Powell (ed) (1995) - Ross Coral Mapping Project 1995". A copy of the report is held at English Nature (Dorset Team). Following on from the survey work carried out...

1995 Purbeck Marine Research Unit, Canford School, Handfast Point to Ballard Point, Ross Coral Mapping Project

These records all relate to "Powell (ed) (1995) - Ross Coral Mapping Project 1995". A copy of the report is held at English Nature (Dorset Team). Following on from the survey work carried out...

Mine plans

The Mining Remediation Authority's collection of more than 120,000 coal mine plans, dating as far back as the 17th century. These cover surface mining, also known as opencast, and deep mining...

Boundaries of Special Protection Areas (SPAs) of Great Britain (including offshore areas)

This resource contains the spatial dataset of Special Protection Area boundaries in Great Britain (including offshore areas), **last updated on March 2026**. The date of the latest update to the...

Afghan Emergency Response Survey

This dataset presents results of a four-weekly questionnaire sent to a cohort of organisations working directly with Afghan communities in London. The first two surveys, beginning October 2021,...

European Quality of Life Survey

The European Quality of Life survey (EQLS) examines both the objective circumstances of European citizens' lives, and how they feel about those circumstances, and their lives in general. It looks...

Workplace Employment by Industry, Borough

Employment (workplace) by industry from the Business register and employment survey (BRES). This data excludes self-employed but includes proprietors Employment = employees + working proprietors....

Workplace Employment by Sex and Status, Borough

Numbers of jobs in an area by gender, and whether an employee or self-employed.This data shows the number of jobs, not the number of people. People with more than one job are counted more than...

Potential Impacts of Skills-based Immigration Policies in London

These workbooks contain the supporting data that sits behind GLA Economics Current Issues Notes 58 and 59.The Government recently set out plans for a ‘skills-based’ immigration system post-Brexit....