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URGENT - Urban Regeneration and the Environment
Programme of research funded by the Natural Environment Research Council. URGENT aims to stimulate the regeneration of the urban environment through understanding and managing... -
Environmental radioactivity database
BGS have collected environmental radioactivity data for various purposes over several decades. This is being drawn together to produce a database of baseline gamma radioactivity... -
Registers of reference set of microfossils
Microfossils extracted from the original sample to be used as reference specimens. Some have been photographed. Original sample number, name of specimen, locality and geological... -
London office registers of palaeontological thin sections
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... -
Leeds office registers of palaeontological thin sections
Registers of thin sections of macrofossils originally held in the Leeds Office. The locality and geological horizon is also given. PC1-462 have been used. -
Public Health England (PHE) - British Geological Survey (BGS) Joint Radon...
The joint PHE-BGS digital radon potential dataset provides the current definitive map of radon Affected Areas in England and Wales. It will also allow an estimate to be made of... -
International Regional Geochemistry
A collection of regional geochemical data, mainly from stream sediment surveys, gathered from many BGS overseas projects since 1960s. Some areas are well covered and well... -
Ground Movements: Shrink/Swell Clays Project
The main aim of the project is to determine the shrinkage and swelling properties of UK clays and mudrocks and to investigate the relationships between them. Thus leading to a... -
Collections of Aerial Photographs
Collections of Aerial Photographs purchased or obtained by BGS and its precursors as part of its surveying activities. Data covers mainly Great Britain or areas where BGS has... -
10k sheet data files
An important paper archive of a wide variety of miscellaneous geological information organised on the basis of its location within 1:10 000 scale geological map sheet areas in... -
Confidential Microfossil Register
Confidential data carried out for hydrocarbons etc. -
Type and figured microfossils
All type and figured calcareous microfossils and palynmorphs held in the BGS collections are registered using the prefix 'MPK'. To date MPK1 to 13400 have been used. Information... -
Quaternary microfossils
A small database comprising information on fresh water ostracods, chara and seeds from the Quaternary. The dataset was created in 1969 and covers the whole of Great Britain. -
50k sheet data files
An important paper archive of a wide variety of miscellaneous geological information organised on the basis of its location within 1:50 000 scale geological map sheet areas in... -
Palaeontological Presentations and Donations.
11 volumes of macrofossil and microfossil collections donated to IGS/BGS. Arranged sequentially in three series: LZ 1-10000 LZA 1-10000 LZB 1-10000 LZC 1-553 -
Macrofossils Identified During The Hartfell Project-Scottish 1" Sheet 16
Register of macrofossils identified during the Hartfell Project, Scottish 1" Sheet 16, hf1-2113. -
Foreign palaeontological presentations and donations
2 volumes of macrofossil collections donated to IGS/BGS. Arranged sequentially FOR.L1-5362. Identifications, geographical information and geological information given. -
Calcareous Microfossil Registers
Register of microfossil analyses carried out in the Leeds and London Office during the 1970s and 1980s held in book form and in box files. They are arranged as follows: SAA... -
Macrofossil registers of the Boswell Collection
4 volumes of the donations by Boswell of onshore British macrofossils. A number of reports in the PDL series were written in the 1960s. -
Index to the BGS collection of geologist's field notebooks and section books.
[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...