The BGS offers a range of services and information for businesses, home-owners, policy-makers and the general public.
Search the extensive BGS fossil collection, comprising several million specimens from the UK, its continental shelf and overseas.
Visit our national geological repository with its unique collection of borehole cores, cuttings, samples, specimens, and related subsurface information from the UK landmass and continental shelf.
BGS hosts one of the world's major earth science libraries. Collections include books, maps, journals and BGS publications. Search our library using NERC Worldcat, or visit in person.
BGS has well-equipped meeting rooms and a conference suite that can be hired by the day or half-day at BGS in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire.
Our laboratories and other operations include: marine operations and engineering, borehole drilling, geophysical observatories, borehole geophysics, remote sensing laboratory, 3D visualisation facility
The BGS GeoSchool offers a wide-ranging programme of both field and classroom-based professional development training courses.
BGS develop 3D models and solutions for a range of stakeholders to model subsurface processes and visualise the ground beneath our feet.
Contact Enquiries if you can't find the information you need on our website. The team will be happy to answer your question or put you in touch with the specialist you need.
BGS Informatics manages our wealth of geoscience data, information and other materials and is responsible for making our data widely available.
Customer-focused services for homebuyers, government, universities and research, construction, consultants, energy, minerals and groundwater.
Buy books, maps, guides, site specific reports (GeoReports) and view/order borehole records.
BGS Marine Operations can help design, build, operate and hire a range of subsea sampling equipment that can recover cores in up to 4000m of water.