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**This dataset has been withdrawn and is no longer avaible from BGS** The database contains satellite images of the UK purchased by the BGS or on its behalf by NERC. It includes data from the...

Data from geophysical surveys in many South American and Caribbean countries carried out by the British Geological Survey for different agencies. The surveys range from regional gravity and...

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...

Reference books, produced to accompany many of the 1:50 000 scale (district) maps, which describe the extent, nature and structure of the rock strata of the district. They often also include...

Reference books, produced to accompany many of the 1:50 000 scale (district) maps, which describe the extent, nature and structure of the rock strata of the district. They often also include...

The Land Survey Plans collection of c.1,520 plans consists largely of mine plans acquired by the Survey, including 492 non-coal mine plans deposited by the National Coal Board 1984-87, and copies...

Reference books, produced to accompany many of the 1:50 000 scale (district) maps, which describe the extent, nature and structure of the rock strata of the district. They often also include...

This dataset (GSE_SPECIMENS) is an index of the specimens and palaeontological slides held in the Type and Stratigraphical (T&S) Collection of Scotland and Northern England. This index along with...

Paper records and photos used to create the Nottingham Caves digital register and maps. Includes archival material of the caves known to BGS, around northern and central Nottingham. Data mainly...

Recordings of earthquakes and other signals (such as quarry blasts, explosions, sonic booms and collapses) made by a network of seismometers and similar sensors across the UK. Recordings start in...

Surface and borehole information for a nuclear waste site investigation programme at Altnabreac, Northern Scotland. Dataset includes geological mapping, surface geophysics, borehole information,...

Earthquake catalogue of all known UK events until 1969. The catalogue covers the offshore areas as well as mainland UK, covering an area between 10 degrees West to 4 degrees East and 49 degrees to...

Structural geology data obtained by Land Survey staff during their mapping work. Originally designed for the Mid-Wales Mapping Programme but subsequently used by other teams. Holds details of...

Collection of overseas topographic, geological and hydrogeological maps

Compiled by the Minerals Intelligence section of the Survey from 1918 to 1985. Comprises around 250,000 card entrys that refer to published articles on mineral topics world-wide.

Contains the administrative and historical records of the Survey from 1835. The archive contains official files, correspondence, maps, photographs and many items dealing with the history of...

[This metadata record has been superseded, see http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608197] An index to the manuscript notebook collection was set up in the 1990's. The notebooks themselves...

Register of macrofossils identified during the Hartfell Project, Scottish 1" Sheet 16, hf1-2113.

2 volumes of macrofossil collections donated to IGS/BGS. Arranged sequentially FOR.L1-5362. Identifications, geographical information and geological information given.

4 volumes of the donations by Boswell of onshore British macrofossils. A number of reports in the PDL series were written in the 1960s.