About BGS

What is the BGS?

• 'What is BGS' index
• What we do
• Who we are
• Our past

The structure of BGS

• Structure index
• BGS board
• Organisation
• Senior Leadership Team

Polices and procedures

• Policy index
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Collections

• Borehole core collections
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Contacts

Offices and departments

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Digital Maps

Geology, onshore (DiGMapGB)

• About DiGMapGB
• Information notes
• 1: 625 000 scale data
• 1: 250 000 scale data
• 1: 50 000 scale data
• 1: 10 000 scale data
• Other scale data
• Artificial theme
• Mass movement theme
• Superficial deposits theme
• Bedrock geology theme

Geology, offshore DigSBS250)

• About DigRock250 & DigSBS250
• Sea-bed sediments (DigSBS250)
• Bedrock geology offshore
• Quaternary offshore

Bathymetry (DigBath250)

• About DigBath250
• Primary specification
• Coverage — v2.0
• Coastline
• Compilation and methodology
• Output formats
• Cost and licensing
• Contact information
• Links
• What's new
• Download sample data

Enquiry Service

• GeoReports & Radon
• GeoRecords
• Subsidence
• Ask about Geology
• Rocks beneath your house

GeoIndex

• Select GeoIndex theme
• GeoIndex help
• Copyright
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• What's new?

Help

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Information and Data

NGDC information & data

• NGDC information & data index
• About the NGDC
• Earth Science Academic Archive
• Materials collection
• Records and archives
• National Hydrocarbons Data Archive
• Nirex Geological Archive

Online data

• Online data index
• BGS dictionaries
• Borehole materials
• Discovery metadata
• GeoIndex
• Geological photographs
• Lexicon of rock units
• PalaeoSaurus
• Rock classification
• Rock collections
• Taxonomy Online
• Water watch
• Web services

Laboratory Services

• Analytical Geochemistry
• Groundwater Laboratories
• Biostratigraphy
• Engineering Geology and Geophysics
• Mineralogy and Petrology

Learning and Popular Geology

Popular geology

• Popular Geology index
• Britain Beneath Our Feet
• Climate change
• Earthquakes
• Fossil Focus
• Geology of Britain
• Holiday Geology guides
• Volcanoes

Educational resources

• Resources index
• Ask-about-Geology
• Blakeney Esker explored
• Geological Timechart
• Geological Timeline
• Make-a-Map
• Rocks in your eyes
• UK School seismology
• Educational links

Educational news and events

• News & events index
• Events
• Newsletters & magazines
• Science and society

From the BGS archives

• BGS archives index
• A Century On Film
• Alexander Henry Green
• Ben Peach
• Edmund Teale
• Geological photographs
• Grizzly Bears
• Montserrat
• William Smith

Library

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• How to use GEOLIB
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• News database
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National Geoscience Data Centre

Products

Browse products

• 3D geology
• Geochemical data
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• Geohazard data
• Geophysical data
• Hydrogeological data
• Minerals data
• Offshore data

Product development

• Future products
• What's new?

Research

Research themes

• Research theme index
• UK geology
• Climate change
• Earth hazards
• Energy
• Environment & health
• Geoscience baselines
• Groundwater
• International
• Land use and development
• Marine geoscience
• Minerals
• Spatial technologies

Where we do our research

• Research location index
• England
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• Marine and coastal
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Services

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Training

BGS School of Field Geology courses

• About the BGS School of Field Geology
• Geological Field Surveying
• Highland Structural Geological Mapping
• Introduction to in the Field
• Quaternary Field Britain
• Quaternary Field Britain

Classroom-based courses

• Extension & Inversion Tectonics
• Hydrogeology
• Introduction to Engineering Geology
• Introduction to Sequence Stratigraphy
• Seismic Reflection Interpretation