Mountain belts disrupt atmospheric circulation patterns and profoundly influence climate. Understanding long-term climate change thus requires good definition of timing and growth rate of major mountain belts, but is complicated by high erosion rates which remove much of the early record of mountain formation. Sophisticated geodynamic and climate-atmosphere models describe the evolution and influences of the Himalayan-Tibet orogen. Many geodynamic models predict palaeogene crustal thickening with little or no early exhumation and erosion. Such models need testing. Decades of geological, geophysical and geochemical investigations centred on the continental rock record have failed to produce data sets suitable for testing fully such models because information about the early orogen evolution is missing. Our alternative strategy looks at marine sediments formed from material eroded in the early history of the mountain belt and preserved in the Andaman Islands, Sylhet Trough, Bangladesh and Iranian Makran. These sediments contain a record of their origin and early history in the Himalayas-Tibet which can be recovered using a combination of geochemical and thermochronological methods. Results from this project will provide the groundwork for major international collaborative projects to drill sediments eroded off the Himalayas and deposited offshore in the Indus and Bengal submarine fans.

The Geoscience Large Object Store (GLOS) is a database for the storage of models and related digital objects, together with metadata that describes the details of the originating model software. This will allow the models to be re-used by the originating software this presupposes that the software and hardware platforms are still available for use. Longer-term preservation will be achieved through the use of the Geoscience Spatial Framework.

**Mothballed**The Geoscience Spatial Framework (GSF) is a database for the storage of 3D modelled surfaces and volumes, in a data structure that is independent of the originating model software. It is based on the simplest possible spatial unit (the point), which can be obtained from the export formats of most modelling packages. The points are stored as Latitude/longitude pairs referred to the ETRF89 datum, although the elevation does not rigorously conform. Topological information (triangulation) is provided, which indicates how points may form surfaces or volumes. The GSF allows models to be linked to a range of attributes describing their properties and to integrate with other BGS data sets, including metadata.

This data compilation contains uranium isotopes (234U/235U/238U) and concentration data on a suite of terrestrial and extra-terrestrial samples for understanding the uranium isotope cycling on Earth. Sample list includes meteorites (ordinary chondrites, eucrites), mantle-derived basalts (Ocean Island Basalts, Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts), arc volcanics, altered oceanic crust (ODP 801), volcanici-clastic sediments, seawater, fossil corals and organic-rich sediments (From the Black Sea and Cariaco Basin).

NIGL (NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratories) is a comprehensive stable and radiogenic isotope laboratory facility that undertakes environmental, life, archaeological and earth science research, and educates and trains PhD students, in a collaborative research environment. This dataset contains a complete listing of projects undertaken by NIGL since its formation in 1987. It includes projects approved by the NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities Steering Committee, projects with BGS, BAS and other NERC institutes, and commercial work.

NIGL (NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratories) is a comprehensive stable and radiogenic isotope laboratory facility that undertakes environmental, life, archaeological and earth science research, and educates and trains PhD students, in a collaborative research environment. This dataset contains a complete record of publications and scientific reports involving NIGL staff, dating from the formation of the group in 1987. The published research is not geographically restricted.

This service was created as part of the EU (FP7) funded EarthServer project. It provided the public facing WCS component of the Geology Data Service for this project. Other public facing components were available at: http://earthserver.bgs.ac.uk/. Services were discontinued in 2022.