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- ...

Available PhD opportunities are listed here and advertised on X via @DocBGS.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Hydrogeological maps bring basic geological information together with data on the hydraulic and hydrochemical characteristics of the rocks and their usefulness for groundwater supply. Throughout the ...

We have been developing and using drones at the BGS since the mid-1980s. Drones (often called unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs) provide us with a novel way to capture data; they help us to gain a ...

The National Landslide Database is the most extensive source of information on landslides in Great Britain with over 17 000 records. The BGS National Landslide Database (NLD) is the most extensive ...