A spatial database of over 30 000 point localities which have been noted on geological field slips and their associated field note record cards or notebooks during the course of survey activity. The data cover areas surveyed from the early 1980s onwards, and contain a reference to the field slip, the version number of the field slip, the number of the locality point and a spatial location. The index contains only the locations of locality points. The textual descriptions of field localities are held on hard-copy field note record cards, which are held within the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) and are accessible on request to BGS Enquiries. A high-level index of available field note record cards in Scotland is available via the NGDC Deposited Data Search: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html?simpleText=field%20note%20card#. Data were entered into the database by BGS staff from 1997 onwards. For more information, refer to: Kilpatrick, K., 1999. Users' Guide: Data Entry and Editing for the BGS Field Notebook Database. British Geological Survey technical report WO/99/6R. Kilpatrick, K., 1999. Users' Guide: Data Retrieval for the BGS Field Notebook Database. British Geological Survey technical report WO/99/7R.

This dataset provides digital spatial information on the extent of planning permissions for the extraction of minerals across Great Britain. The dataset shows the extent of all known extant and non-extant mineral planning permissions, irrespective of their current planning or operational status. Permissions may include active, inactive and restored mineral workings and, in some cases, permitted but unworked mineral deposits. Planning permission areas represent locations where a commercial decision to extract mineral has been made and where a successful application has been granted through the provisions of Town and Country Planning legislation. The permitted mineral reserve may have been depleted to varying degrees. The dataset was compiled by the British Geological Survey (BGS) using data supplied primarily by Mineral Planning Authorities and supplemented by other available sources. Data were collected at different times between 1997 and 2007. As a result, the dataset represents a historic snapshot of planning permissions and is not fully complete or current. Where available, information on the planning status of permissions (for example valid or expired) is stored in the underlying database and may be accessed through attribute queries. Current planning permission data should be obtained directly from the relevant Mineral Planning Authority. This dataset is intended to support regional and national-scale understanding of the distribution of mineral planning permissions and should not be used as a definitive or current record of permitted mineral extraction.

Information from the Scottish quarries database has now been incorporated into the BritPits (British Pits) database Contains the site and rock type information of working and disused hard rock quarries in Scotland, covering all mainland Scotland and major Scottish islands. Database was initiated in the spring of 1997. Various stages of completeness in the dataset according to information received, quarries not documented will not be recorded. Quarry site data is given as point data (centre 2D XY data), at the point there is a quarry, areal extent is not recorded.

Geophysical survey data from Fluid Processes and Waste Management projects for UK and European investigations. Data comprise distinct surveys using a variety of geophysical methods and equipment. All data held electronically as XYZ ASCII-type data points.

Programme of research funded by the Natural Environment Research Council. URGENT aims to stimulate the regeneration of the urban environment through understanding and managing the interaction of natural and man-made processes. Projects throughout the UK first set up in 1997 and completed in 2005. It was supported by partners from British industry, local authorities and Government agencies. A total of 40 URGENT projects in four key areas - air, water, soil and ecology. The projects aim was to determine the magnitude of urban environmental problems and risks, to understand the underlying patterns and processes that affect them, and to produce effective strategies for control and managment which will be accessible to users both in the UK and abroad.

This dataset is an index of the Survey Collection of fossils for Scotland and Northern England. It is the digital equivalent of the analogue (card) index. The latter contains some 31k records, c.70% of which has been transcribed. The continually growing Survey Collection comprises about 450k samples (including nearly 30k specimens from the John Smith Collection) which are individually registered in c.150 leather bound volumes. The Oracle relational database BGS_FOSSLOC is a first step in ascertaining what registered fossil materials exist for certain areas, who collected them and when, their geographical and stratigraphical details, the type of collection (whether from boreholes or exposures), and any covering technical reports. It is also a pathway to an extensive and unique collection of paper graphic logs, some 18k of which record annotated information on fossil occurrences and assemblages at certain stratigraphical levels (particularly in the Carboniferous) in Scotland and Northern England.

Digitally held Seabed Sediment, Facies, Bathymetry, Solid and Quaternary offshore geology for certain areas in the UK inshore waters. The storage formats of the data are ESRI and MapInfo but other formats can be supplied.

The Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas Plus (GOSTAplus) contains maps of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) climatologies and anomalies, Night Marine Air temperature climatologies and anomalies and Sea Ice coverage spanning the period 1851-1995. Dataset includes gridded, global SSTs from 1951-1990 and Sea Ice coverage from 1903 to 1994. The data are provided by the Met Office. Updated version of some data also available on request.

In Autumn 1995, the Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (GDAAC) compiled the Climatology Interdisciplinary Data Collection (CIDC) to facilitate interdisciplinary studies related to climate and global change. This data collection has been produced in collaboration with the Center for Earth Observing and Space Research (CEOSR), Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics (CSI), and George Mason University. It was designed for the study of global change, seasonal to interannual climate change, and other phenomena that require from one to dozens of interacting parameters. A few of the possible study areas are the depletion of stratospheric ozone, the weather changes associated with the periodic El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, periodic droughts, and global warming. Short background information scenarios are given on the CD for the Monsoon, El Niño, and global warming phenomena. The CD set also contains read software and the Gridded Analysis and Display System (GrADS). Data from the scientific disciplines dealing with meteorology and atmospheric sciences, land surface, ocean, cryosphere, biosphere, the Sun, and remote sensing science have been gathered into one place and, where feasible, presented in a common format (monthly means with a 1° x 1° world grid, or commensurable resolution and IEEE 32-bit floating point numbers). Over 70 physical parameters from some 25 separate datasets are represented. The Data Collection Overview document on the CDs lists alphabetically all the physical parameters along with the dataset(s) in which they can be found. It also contains a separate listing of each dataset, its origin, and the parameters included. Each dataset is also accompanied by a detailed user's guide. The Climatology Interdisciplinary Data Collection (CIDC) has been subdivided into seven categories. The grouping is influenced by the types of physical parameters involved and partially by the way that they are processed. Because of this the same physical parameter may appear in several datasets and in more than one category. When this occurs different algorithms have normally been used to produce the parameter. The included datasets included below. Atmospheric dynamics & atmospheric sounding products Radiation and clouds Biosphere data Measured variable atmospheric constituents Measured surface temperature and pressure Hydrological data Remote sensing science The data on the CD set was collected in a variety of ways, using remote sensing, direct measurements, and model output. The individual datasets were provided in a variety of forms. In some cases this required the data publication team to regrid and reformat datasets and in others to produce monthly averages from finer resolution data. The specific handling for each dataset is detailed in the documentation. The regridded, reformatted, integrated, and peer reviewed datasets are published on this four-volume CD collection. The data are held online at the BADC are public and are made available for browsing purposes. Volume 1: Biosphere, Hydrology, Surface Temperature, Ozone, Greenhouse Gases Volume 2: Atmospheric Dynamics Volume 3: Radiation and Clouds Volume 4: Atmospheric Surroundings

The 3D multi channel seismic data were acquired as part of a collaborative investigation into models of magmatic segmentation between the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and BIRPS (the British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate). The 3D EPR (East Pacific Rise) ARAD (Anatomy of a Ridge Axis Discontinuity) EW9707 cruise was undertaken in September and October 1997 to provide both refelction and wide-angle seismic data for the study of the overlapping spreading centre (OSC) at 9 degrees 3 minutes N on the East Pacific Rise. The data were acquired with a single source and a single streamer with a nominal line spacing of 100 m. The 3D-EPR ARAD survey was a joint NERC/NSF (US National Science Foundation) funded project and the copyright for this survey is held jointly. Reference: Bazin, S. Harding, AJ. et al. (2001) Three-dimensional shallow crustal emplacement at the 9 degree 03 minute N overlapping spreading center on the East Pacific Rise, Journal of Geophysical Research.