BGS has been trialling a novel bioaccessibility tracing technique to ascertain if it offers more analytical precision over ...

A 150-year-old painting of Dryburgh Suspension Bridge and the River Tweed offers an insight into the Scottish Borders ...

‘True north’ is the direction to the geographic north pole; ‘grid north’ is where the vertical blue lines shown on Ordnance Survey (OS) maps converge, and ‘magnetic north’ is the direction that a ...

Shrink–swell ground movement, typically reported as subsidence, is one of the most damaging geohazards in the UK today. Many soils contain clay minerals that absorb water and swell when they get wet, ...

Two of Europe’s leading geological surveys have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen collaboration on key geoscientific challenges. A 150-year-old painting of Dryburgh Suspension Bridge ...

BGS has produced a suite of hydrogeological maps of Scotland. The suite comprises two layers: groundwater vulnerability and aquifer productivity (bedrock and superficial). Groundwater vulnerability is ...

A rock is a solid collection of minerals. There are three main types of rock, classified by how they are sourced and formed: Sedimentary rocks are recycled rocks formed by the deposition of fragments ...

Hosting BGS’s collections of borehole cores, cuttings, samples, specimens, and related subsurface information from the UK landmass and continental shelf. We have extensive collections of books, maps, ...

The Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast form Northern Ireland’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS), one of only two such sites in the UK inscribed because of their geological heritage. The Giant’s ...

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The BGS depth to groundwater product is a national scale dataset of probable maximum depth to the phreatic water table. The depth to groundwater dataset is a gridded interpolation of depth to ...

To maintain the availability and performance of our web services and applications for all our stakeholders, and minimise digital carbon footprint, we urge all developers to use our open APIs with ...