Datasets

The BGS GeoScour Open datasets provide a generalised overview of the natural characteristics and properties of catchment and riverine environments for the assessment of river scour in Great Britain.

• Open
• Tier 1: 1:625 000
  Tier 2: 1:250 000
• Great Britain

The BGS GeoSure datasets identify areas of potential hazard and, therefore, potential natural ground movement, in Great Britain.

• Premium
• 1:50 000
• Great Britain

The BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid datasets provide a generalised overview of the susceptibility to six naturally occurring geohazards in Great Britain.

• Open
• 5 km hex grid (approx. 1:5 000 000)
• Great Britain

The potential for compressible ground to be a hazard has been assessed using 1:50 000-scale digital maps of superficial and bedrock deposits.

• Premium
• 1:50 000
• Great Britain

The Debris Flow landslide layer provides information on the potential of the ground, at a given location, to form a debris flow. It is based on a combination of digital geological, hydrogeological and topographic data.

• Premium
• 1:50 000
• Great Britain

The potential for landsliding (slope instability) to be a hazard has been assessed using 1:50 000 scale digital maps of superficial and bedrock deposits. These have been combined with information from the BGS National Landslide Database and scientific and engineering reports.

• Premium
• 1:50 000
• Great Britain

The potential for running sand to be a hazard has been assessed using 1:50 000-scale digital maps of superficial and bedrock deposits.

• Premium
• 1:50 000
• Great Britain

The shrink–swell 3D data is a regional hazard susceptibility map that identifies areas of potential shrink–swell hazard in 3D at intervals down to 20 m in the London and Thames Valley area.

• Premium
• 1:50 000
• London and Thames Valley

This is a single data layer that identifies areas of potential shrink–swell hazard that are underneath another solid formation and therefore hidden from the surface.

• Premium
• 1:625 000
• Great Britain

Ground dissolution occurs when water passing through soluble rocks produces underground cavities and cave systems. These cavities reduce support to the ground above and can cause localised collapse of the overlying rocks and deposits.

• Premium
• 1:50 000
• Great Britain

The National Landslide Database is the most extensive source of information on landslides in Great Britain with over 17 000 records.

• Open / Premium
• Great Britain

BGS has developed a suite of products, including maps and data, which show potential change in subsidence due to UKCP climate change scenarios

Based on medium emissions scenario, provides the most susceptible value for the time periods 2030s, 2050s and 2080s within the grid cell.

• Open
• 2 km gridded dataset
• Great Britain

Based on medium emissions scenario, provides five levels of susceptibility for average, wetter and drier climate conditions for the time-period envelopes of 2020, 2030, 2040, 2050 and 2080 at the 1:50 000 area polygons scale.

• Premium
• Quasi-1:50 000
• Great Britain

Based on higher emissions scenario, provides the most susceptible value for the time periods 2030s and 2070s within the grid cell.

• Open
• 2km gridded dataset
• Great Britain

Based on higher emissions scenario, provides five levels of susceptibility for average, wetter and drier climate conditions for the time periods 2030s and 2070s at the 1:50 000 area polygons scale.

• Premium
• Quasi-1:50 000
• Great Britain

GeoCoast Open provides a range of historic images and diagrams extracted from our archives, memoirs and other publications, which can provide a reference for coastal change.

• Open
• Multiple
• Great Britain

GeoCoast is an integrated GIS package of datasets designed to inform and support coastal management and adaptation.

• Premium
• 1:50 000
• Great Britain

BGS has produced the geological indicators of flooding dataset from geological maps detailing the floodplains and coastal plains in Britain.

• Premium
• 1:50 000
• Great Britain

This product provides an index-level assessment of the potential for financial insurance loss due to natural ground movement.

• via BGS Data Resellers
• 1:50 000
• Great Britain

In response to the need for more information on groundwater flooding, BGS has produced the first national dataset on the susceptibility across Britain.

• Premium
• 1:50 000
• Great Britain

Radon is a natural radioactive gas, which enters buildings from the ground. Exposure to high concentrations increases the risk of lung cancer.

• Open
• 1 km grid size (approx. 1:1 000 000)
• Great Britain and Northern Ireland

This dataset provides a generalised overview of the likelihood for mining to have occurred.

• Open
• 1 km hex grid (approx. 1:1 000 000)
• Great Britain

The mining hazard dataset provides essential information for planners and developers building in areas of former shallow underground mine workings.

• Premium
• 1:50 000
• Great Britain

The BGS property subsidence assessment dataset uses a combination of best available geology, tree location and property information to provide property- and postcode-specific information on ground movement across England and Wales.

• via BGS Data Resellers
• PSA buildings: 1:50 000; PSA postcodes
• Great Britain

The radon potential dataset is the definitive map of radon-affected areas in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, created jointly by UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the BGS.

• Premium
• 1:50 000
• Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The UK stream sediment geochemistry maps present data compiled from the G-BASE and TellusNI geochemical projects.

• Open / Premium
• Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The UK Compiled Topsoil Dataset (UKTS), is the most extensive topsoil geochemistry dataset for the UK.

• Open / Premium
• Partial UK Coverage