{"id":80745,"date":"2021-11-18T12:33:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/?p=80745"},"modified":"2024-02-28T09:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:24:24","slug":"new-tool-provides-users-with-free-access-to-geological-models-for-three-major-uk-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/news\/new-tool-provides-users-with-free-access-to-geological-models-for-three-major-uk-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"New tool provides users with free access to geological models for three major UK cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A new urban interactive models tool, providing free user access to geological models for selected UK cities, has been added to BGS’s GeoIndex<\/a> service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BGS GeoIndex already provides access to a range of 2D information and data resources through an interactive map viewer, enabling users to navigate to their area of interest, view and query datasets, download reports and clip data, and make enquiries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new tool allows users to capture synthetic boreholes, geological cross-sections and slices through 3D models developed by BGS for London, Glasgow and Cardiff, the largest cities in England, Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A range of technical, professional and academic users, in particular consultancy for the geotechnical, construction and groundwater sectors, will benefit from the tool, which makes key urban models freely accessible for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The models provide regional geological understanding (50 m resolution) designed to help users develop conceptual ground models and plan ground investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Users can query the geological model to obtain a range of visualisations of geological conditions beneath each of the cities. The views can also be downloaded as a standard format PDF.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t

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