BGS has secured Bronze accreditation under the Advance HE Race Equality Charter framework, recognising its commitment to ...

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

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, ...

‘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 ...

The BGS geological timechart provides colourful reference material for use in schools, colleges and at home, setting out the geological timescale and geochronological terms we use at BGS. You can ...

Our most detailed dataset is provided at 1:10,000 scale. This digital dataset is based on BGS’s highest resolution survey mapping and contains a small proportion of 1:25 000 scale data in some upland ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

To date, the real-time impact data that is needed to effectively forecast and monitor geological hazard events has been unavailable or incomplete. The FloodTags platform aims to fill this gap by using ...

Groundwater is a critical water source in the UK. Across England it provides around a third of the overall public water supply and as much as 100 per cent in some communities in south-east England and ...