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The UK Geoenergy Observatories (UKGEOS) Glasgow superficial deposits GSI3D model outputs, created by the British Geological Survey, provide a semi-regional overview of the depth, thickness and...

This British Geological Survey (BGS) marine geophysical and multibeam survey took place in April 2012 in the area of Ardmucknish Bay on board the RV White Ribbon. This was a follow up survey to...

This marine multibeam and geophysical survey took place in June 2011 in the Ardmucknish Bay area on board the BGS survey vessel RV White Ribbon. The survey was carried out by the British...

This release and data set is also available from: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/nature-conservation-local-sites-in-positive-conservation-management-in-england These official statistics give...

"Sites of Special Scientific Interest" is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation...

BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units concepts, published as linked open data IRI: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/ref/Lexicon/NamedRockUnit (currently resolving to...

Unconfined compressive strength data for rocks from TilTil and ElTeniente mines in Chile, plus basic index tests (porosity, density) and Elastic wave velocity for selected samples. Laboratory data...

Data from geophysical surveys in many African countries carried out by the British Geological Survey for different agencies. The surveys range from regional gravity and airborne magnetic mapping...

**No longer exists - now part of GeoSure**An assessment of the potential for a geological deposit to show running sand behaviour under the action of flowing water. A characteristic usually of...

**No longer exists - now part of GeoSure**An assessment of the potential for a geological deposit to shrink or swell with changes in moisture content. A characteristic usually of clays, mudstones...

Three volumes of SAM samples (SAM1-SAM4789) exist. They represent the work of FW Anderson in the 1950s and 1960s. All samples were re-registered into other datasets. They are predominantly from...

Index data from field note record sheets. These records are produced by BGS geologists as part of the geological mapping process and are written descriptions of localities, or sections, or records...

A list of the laboratory reports produced from testing in the engineering geology laboratory. It includes report number, title and author's name(s). The reports themselves contain data on a wide...

The Surface Coal Resource Areas define the coal resources capable of being extracted by surface mining methods, often referred to as ‘opencast’. This information is used by Local Planning...

A worldwide compilation of 645 analyses of Sm and Nd concentrations, and Nd isotopes, in fine-grained continental sedimentary rocks with a range of deposition ages. These data were used in Dhuime...

Three registers of thin sections of predominantly Palaeozoic macrofossils together with algae, plants and a very few radiolarians and spores. The locality and geological horizon is also given It...

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...

Stress-Dependent permeability data for samples of the Glasgow Main coal and the overlying mudstone and sandstone from the UKGEOS research borehole GGC01. Associated XRD mineralogy, Helium...

Organic carbon and bulk nitrogen isotope and abundance data and metal abundance data from the Mesoarchean VMS deposit and associated strata. Detailed information is given in Stueeken, E.E.,...

This marine multibeam Survey took place in July/November 2010 in the Firth of Forth on board the RV White Ribbon. The survey was carried out by the British Geological Survey (BGS) on behalf of...