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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

A 150-year-old painting of Dryburgh Suspension Bridge and the River Tweed offers an insight into the Scottish Borders landmark shortly after it was built in the 1870s. A 150-year-old painting of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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We have one of the largest databases in the world on the production and trade of minerals. The database compilers aim for integrity and accuracy and, for quality control of data, participate in ...

In rapidly developing urban environments, water-quality protection is particularly challenging due to diverse pollution sources. Protecting water resources by identifying pollutants is essential to ...

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 ...

We monitor the weather, the oceans, volcanoes and earthquake zones. Despite the increasing pressure on the underground for resources to sustain human life (groundwater, raw materials, energy solutions ...