Geological samples recovered from the UK’s first giant oil field in the 1970s continue to inform industry and researchers ...

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

The datasets below are made available as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web map services (WMS). They can also be accessed by websites that use a map-based interface to connect to WMS, allowing data ...

The BGS Superficial Deposit Thickness Model (SDTM) dataset presents the modelled regional variation in thickness of superficial and unconsolidated deposits across Great Britain. These include ...

BGS Coasts and Estuaries provides independent and expert geoscientific tools and advice for collaborative decision making to assess different adaptation options for coastal flooding and erosion. This ...

2026 marks 50 years since BGS, the world's oldest national geological survey, relocated to the site of our current headquarters, just outside Nottingham. BGS has been trialling a novel ...

Enhanced mapping of the UK’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is being made available to the public for the first time, providing greater insight into the occurrence of earthquake hazard across an area ...

Download BGS Annual Reports in PDF format from 1997 to the present day.

This dataset is suitable for those involved in the planning and design of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) and for those who approve SuDS planning applications within local authorities. This ...

For the last 10 000 years, humans have manipulated fallow deer populations with varying outcomes. Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica) are now endangered, whilst European fallow deer (Dama dama) ...

The origin of the Kinnekulle tephra, a huge volcanic ash layer spread across Norway, Sweden, the Baltic region, Belarus and Poland, has long been a mystery but new evidence may have uncovered the ...

Taylor Swift’s record-breaking concerts in Edinburgh have now been scientifically recognised as ‘ground shaking’, with earthquake readings being detected up to 6 km from the venue. BGS monitoring ...