The datasets below are made available as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Services (WMS). View in compatible software.
They can also be accessed by websites that use a map-based interface to connect to WMS services, allowing data from different providers to be visualised spatially and compared.
E.g. OneGeology — dynamic digital geological map data for the world at a scale of about 1: 1 million. Access the data through the OneGeology Portal.
Connect to the WMS format data services from the links below:
British geology onshore digital maps (1:50000 scale)
UK onshore and offshore bedrock and superficial geology (1:625000 scale)
Samples of high resolution ground stability data (1:50000 scale)
Soil data (from the NERC Soil Portal)
GeoIndex datasets (over 70 onshore and offshore layers including boreholes, earthquakes, landslides, fossils, active mines and quarries, rock samples, geochemistry and geophysics)