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In photos: marine surveying a remote volcanic island

A photo blog by members of the BGS Marine Survey team, who recently completed marine surveys around Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

BGS completes first mapping expedition to Ascension Island

BGS marine geoscientists travelled to Ascension Island to support its government with an ongoing, conservation-driven mapping programme.

Trans-Pacific Transit 2023: deep-diving ocean partnership sets sail

BGS has joined a multidisciplinary research expedition to ‘explore the unexplored’ and fill in some of the biggest gaps in our knowledge of the oceans' darkest depths.

Updated biosphere map for the UK released

The updated biosphere map for the UK will allow users to identify sulphur isotope variations.

Introduction to the BGS 1:10 560 and 1:10 000 paper geological maps

New seabed geology maps for offshore Yorkshire

Offshore Yorkshire is the latest map to be released in BGS's series of fine-scale digital seabed maps.

BGS Seabed Geology

The seabed geology map dataset covers regions on the UK’s continental shelf and details the substrate geology, structural geology and seabed geomorphology.

New geological map of the Maltese Islands published

The new map, commissioned by Malta’s Continental Shelf Department, is the first update for almost 30 years.