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Old card index of quarries in England, Wales and Scotland dating mostly from 1939 to 1963: about 7000 cards, each referring to one quarry. England & Wales cards are arranged by BGS 1-inch (now 50k...

The database contains images of the UK, recorded from various airborne multispectral sensors operated by or on behalf of the NERC airborne remote sensing facility. It includes data from the ATM,...

This dataset contains parametric data (epicentre, magnitude, depth, etc) for over one million earthquakes worldwide. The dataset has been compiled gradually over a period of thirty years from...

[This metadata record has been superseded, see http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608197] Manuscript notebooks, section books and field record cards containing detailed information gathered by...

The current database was developed to record Karst Geohazard information acquired as part of its onshore core and commissioned mapping programmes. Information held on the database includes details...

The Single Onshore Borehole Index (SOBI) is an index of over 1 million boreholes, shafts and wells and references collections of digital and analogue records from all forms of drilling and site...

Collection of aerial photographs purchased or obtained by BGS and its precursors as part of its surveying activities. Photographs for South West England at 1:10K-1:22K scale.

Geological map 'Standards', manuscript and published maps of Great Britain produced by the Survey on County Series (1:10560) and National Grid (1:10560 & 1:10000) Ordnance Survey base maps. Maps...

Registers of macrofossils arranged by 1" (one inch ro the mile) or 1:50 000 scale English geological sheets. Each register is numbered 1-359 and each sheet has one or more volumes. Within each...

The database contains satellite images of the UK purchased by the BGS or on its behalf by NERC. It includes data from the Landsat, Spot and Radarsat satellites. The images are stored in...

A collection of reference drawings relating to investigations carried out by Nirex, during the period from 1989 to 1997. The drawings summarise the status of the geological investigation at...

**Now superceded by CALM archives database**A brief finding list compiled in 1996/7 which derives its data from the earlier card and register lists. Earlier card indexes are still available at...

1:1.5M scale 'Geology Through Climate Change' poster map covering UK mainland, Northern Ireland and Eire. This poster map shows the rocks of Britain and Ireland in a new way, grouped and coloured...

[This metadata record has been superseded, see http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13603141] These are scanned and georeferenced raster versions of the 1400 Ministry of Housing and Local...

Digital GIS mineral planning permission polygons from 1947 to 1985 as digitised from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government Planning Permission Maps and Cards (see associated metadata for...

This dataset is now superseded by Marine bedrock dataset (DiGRock250k) version 3. The BedRock data shows polygonal and selected linear geological information, sourced from published BGS 1:250 000...

The dataset describes the potential of bedrock aquifers across Scotland to sustain various levels of borehole water supply, and the dominant groundwater flow type in each aquifer. There are five...

Data resulting from deep underground coal exploration and exploitation. Collection of data, dating back to the 18th century, includes reports, interpretations and records of research in all...

The (GEBCO) aims to provide the most authoritative, publicly available bathymetry datasets for the world's oceans. Coastline dataset to support the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans.

The BGS archive photograph collections consists of three sub-collections, The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) photograph collection, Keyworth Library archive collection...