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

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 ...

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 ...

The BGS property subsidence assessment dataset uses a combination of geology, tree location and property (including age, drainage, building type and number of storeys) information to provide property- ...

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 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 ...

When asked what activity is commonly associated with a volcanic eruption, the common response might be lava flows, ash fall, pyroclastic density currents or even lahars, but island volcanoes are ...

These classroom activity downloads were produced as part of the ‘Innovations in Practical Work’ series published by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP), produced in partnership with BGS.

BGS has produced the geological indicators of flooding dataset from geological maps detailing the floodplains and coastal plains in Britain. The geological indicators of flooding dataset is a digital ...

UNESCO’s Global Geoparks are areas with internationally important rocks and landscapes, all of which are managed responsibly for conservation, education and sustainable development. Whilst geology may ...

Cigna, F, Harrison, A, Tapete, D, and Lee, K. 2016. Understanding geohazards in the UNESCO WHL site of the Derwent Valley Mills (UK) using geological and remote sensing data. Proc. SPIE 9688, Fourth ...

Every five years since 1990, the international science community teams up to update the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF), a standard reference set of maps of the Earth’s magnetic field ...