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"Blue sheets" or more recently "sample collecting forms" are completed when palaeontological specimens or samples are collected during field work. They contain all the known geographical and...

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...

Details of location and geology of wells and springs on Anglesey plus 6 inch County Sheet site maps.

**Now superceded by CALM archives database**A brief finding list compiled in 1996/7 which derives its data from the earlier card and register lists.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

The BGS Geophysical Logs Database contains downhole geophysical log data from onshore UK boreholes drilled for the purpose of oil and gas exploration and extraction. These wells are regulated by...

[This metadata record has been superseded, see http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480403]. This layer of the map based index (GeoIndex) shows the location of site reports covering a wide range...

[This metadata record has been superseded, see http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480339]. This layer of the Map based index (GeoIndex) shows the location of registered samples of drillcore...

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...

[This metadata record has been superseded, see http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480339]. This layer of the map based index (GeoIndex) shows the location of drillcore, bulk specimens,...

This layer of the map based index (GeoIndex) is a map based index of the National Well Record Archive. This index shows the location of water wells along with basic information such as well name,...

This layer of the Map based index (GeoIndex) shows the location of records of boreholes, shafts and wells from all forms of drilling and site investigation work. Some 850,000 records dating back...

The British Geological Survey (BGS) was awarded a grant from the Welsh Assembly Government Aggregates Levy Fund in 2009 to provide a comprehensive, relevant and accessible information base to...

Hourly and minute means of the geomagnetic field vector components from observatories around the world from, respectively, 1883 and 1969, to the present day. At present there are about 160...

The map shows the potential for the rocks to supply groundwater and the type of groundwater flow within the rocks. The dataset reattributes polygons in the Digital Geological Map Data of Great...

The data shows the location of seabed and sub-seabed samples collected from the UK continental shelf, held by BGS. A BGS Sample Station is a general location at which sampling with one or more...

This layer of the map based index (GeoIndex) shows the location and name of active mineral workings in the UK and is derived from the BGS BritPits (British Pits) database. The BritPits database of...

The map shows the location of excess sample materials from the G-BASE (Geochemical Baseline Survey Of The Environment) geochemistry project:- stream sediments, panned heavy mineral concentrates...

The map shows the localities where samples that form part of the BGS rock collections have been taken. Many of these samples are from surface exposure, and were collected by BGS geologists during...