Simple map viewers are made available for a range of BGS spatial datasets. Pan and zoom to your required location, click on the map and find out more about geosciences in your area of interest.
The Geology of Britain viewer helps you explore the geology around where you live.
Includes: Borehole scans, Earthquake Timeline and 3D models
A map-based index to onshore datasets that we have collected or have obtained from other sources. Boreholes, collections, earthquakes, geochemistry, geology, geophysics...
A map-based index to offshore datasets that we have collected or have obtained from other sources. Boreholes, seabed samples, geology, geophysics, hydrocarbon wells.
Map viewer providing online access to a timeline of monthly groundwater levels across the UK from 1970 to present.
UKSO is a collaboration of institutions providing and delivering information about the diverse soil types of the UK.
The viewers listed here are delivered under the Open Government Licence, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced BGS materials: "Contains British Geological Survey materials © NERC [year]".