A short walk around Holyrood Park provides an insight into the geological history of area from the Carboniferous Period to now.
It may seem unwise to choose to live with such a hazardous neighbour as a volcano. There are a number of reasons why people live alongside volcanoes.
These free-to-download models help to explain some of the key features of some active volcanoes and for some extinct volcanoes.
Studying for your PhD at BGS.
Landslides in the UK, around the world and under the sea.
The BGS collections include continuous borehole core, broken core, cuttings and hydrogeological core and borehole material.
The National Geological Repository at BGS stores material from samples which are routinely collected from the seabed during Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP) Hydrographic Instruction (HI) surveys.
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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