This theme provides information on the excavatability of geological deposits at surface.
The BGS collections include continuous borehole core, broken core, cuttings and hydrogeological core and borehole material.
BGS is engaged in surveying the country for former mineral sites due to their importance for planning purposes and as potential sources of currently scarce resources such as building stone, in addition to hazard checking.
The National Geoscience programme is a forward-looking investment in UK geology that provides relevant, coherent and enriched geoscience knowledge for our stakeholders.
Different types of volcano are formed according to the properties of the magma that creates them.
The Anthropocene is a newly proposed geological time-unit, first suggested in the year 2000. It is as significant as the discovery of plate tectonics.
Make-a-map is an interactive geological map of the UK and Ireland intended for amateur geologists, students and teachers.
A new, seamless, onshore–offshore digital geological map for part of one of the most famous coastlines in the world — the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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