BGS's research provides an integral and essential part of the BGS science strategy, particularly within the energy, minerals and waste, land use planning and development, climate change and groundwater science areas.
The laboratories are managed through four discipline based facilities:
Inorganic and organic geochemistry, radiogenic isotope facility, stable isotope facility.
Mineralogy, petrography and microanalysis, thin sections, biostratigraphy.
Rock mechanical properties, hydrophysical and geophysical properties, geotechnical properties, hydrogeological properties and processes.
Transport properties, hydrothemal, hydrates and ice, geomicrobiology, gamma ray spectrometry / radiochemistry.