The commercial GeoReports project, under the National Geoscience Information Service sector of the Information Systems and Management directorate, produces around 8000 GeoReports a year, giving an annual turnover of over 600,000 pounds currently. The site specific reports are aimed at anyone who is investigating ground conditions in Great Britain (geology, hydrogeology and any related geohazards, including radon). Georeports reference: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/georeports

A collection of 1:63 360 and 1:10 560 geological maps of Ireland. The maps were firstly created by the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom and Ireland up until 1905 when the Geological Survey of Ireland was transferred to the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland. Following this point, the maps were created and published by the Geological Survey of Great Britain (later to become the British Geological Survey). The maps range from 1853 to 1953. Geological maps represent a geologist's compiled interpretation of the geology of an area. A geologist will consider the data available at the time, including measurements and observations collected during field campaigns, as well as their knowledge of geological processes and the geological context to create a model of the geology of an area. This model is then fitted to a topographic base map and drawn up at the appropriate scale, with generalization if necessary, to create a geological map, which is a representation of the geological model. Explanatory notes and vertical and horizontal cross-sections may be published with the map. Geological maps may be created to show various aspects of the geology, or themes. These maps are hard-copy paper records stored in the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) and are delivered as digital scans through the BGS website.

The BGS Publications Database contains metadata relating to documents created by the British Geological Survey (BGS). These documents include published works (commercially published, formally printed, listed for sale and available for general distribution to the public), as well as informally published technical reports and current report RR, OR, CR and IR series. The database contains documents which are released for general distribution, as well as confidential documents and documents which are available only to BGS staff. The database contains series of publications which have been used throughout the existence of the Geological Survey, including sheet memoirs, district memoirs, summaries of work and regional geological guides which date from the beginning of Geological Survey activity in the early 19th century to the present day. The database also contains RR (research), OR (open), CR (commissioned) and IR (internal) reports from the current BGS report series, as well as a large (over 25 000) number of technical reports created by various units within BGS from the 1940s through to the year 2000. Basic metadata about a publication are held, including its unique ID, reference number, year of publication, full title, author(s), series and publisher. Many publications are held in digital formats, either as scans of hard-copy documents or as born-digital files. Publications stored within the database are available to view, but are not available for download. Non-confidential technical reports are available to download in PDF format. The database can be browsed and reports accessed through the BGS Publications Viewer: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/publications/. The current series of open reports from BGS are available on the NERC Open Research Archive (NORA): https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/.

A collection of manuscript field notebooks, section books and field record cards containing detailed information gathered by Survey geologists (or other recognised geologists) from various sources as part of the mapping process. Examples include observations linked directly to field slips, borehole logs, sections and drawings and cover the United Kingdom. The field notebooks date from the 1840s until they were more commonly replaced by field note record cards (sometimes referred to as field cards or sheets) in the field. A digital index of the notebook collection was created in the 1990s and stored in the BGS corporate database. Some notebooks are held by the BGS Library and may not be included in the field notebook index. The field notebook index is an index into the hard-copy records themselves, and does not include detailed locality information or information about data held within the notebooks. The Happs / Hall mining index to field notebooks and the field notebook localities dataset contain more detail for select notebooks. The hardcopy notebooks can be viewed upon enquiry to the National Geoscience Data Centre at BGS.

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.

A series of maps at the detailed scale of 1:25 000 have been produced for areas of outstanding geological interest in Great Britain. Some maps are accompanied by explanatory booklets. The maps were published between 1954 and 2007. About 60 maps have been published, some showing solid geology, some drift geology and some combined solid and drift. Most of the maps include geological cross sections and generalised vertical sections. Geological maps represent a geologist's compiled interpretation of the geology of an area. A geologist will consider the data available at the time, including measurements and observations collected during field campaigns, as well as their knowledge of geological processes and the geological context to create a model of the geology of an area. This model is then fitted to a topographic basemap and drawn up at the appropriate scale, with generalization if necessary, to create a geological map, which is a representation of the geological model. Explanatory notes and vertical and horizontal cross sections may be published with the map. Geological maps may be created to show various aspects of the geology, or themes. These maps are hard-copy paper records stored in the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) and are delivered as digital scans through the BGS website.

These maps are based on the Ordnance Survey quarter-inch to the mile series of maps, for England / Wales and Scotland. Most maps in this series show solid geology only, but there are a few drift maps within the New Series maps of England / Wales. There are three distinct series of quarter-inch maps: - Geological map of England and Wales. Quarter-inch series 1:253 440: Old Series (1889 - 1906). This is a set of hand-coloured maps which were published between 1889 and 1895 with later revisions. They were engraved onto copper. The series was issued as 15 sheets, where sheet 3 was an index to colours. - Geological map of England and Wales. Quarter-inch series 1:253 440: New Series (1906-1977). Following the popularity of the Old Series 'Quarter-inch' map, a New Series of colour-printed maps was issued. This was a long-lived series, with sheets still being published in the late 1970s. Maps were published between 1906–1977. The series was issued as 15 sheets, where sheet 3 was an index to colours. - Geological Survey of Scotland. Quarter-inch series 1:253 440 (1904-1977). These Scottish maps were published in parallel with the English / Welsh New Series, and was issued as 17 sheets. The quarter-inch mapping was superseded in the 1970s - 1980s by the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Series geological maps of the UK and Continental Shelf. Geological maps represent a geologist's compiled interpretation of the geology of an area. A geologist will consider the data available at the time, including measurements and observations collected during field campaigns, as well as their knowledge of geological processes and the geological context to create a model of the geology of an area. This model is then fitted to a topographic basemap and drawn up at the appropriate scale, with generalization if necessary, to create a geological map, which is a representation of the geological model. Explanatory notes and vertical and horizontal cross sections may be published with the map. Geological maps may be created to show various aspects of the geology, or themes. The most common map themes held by BGS are solid (later referred to as bedrock) and drift (later referred to as superficial). These maps are hard-copy paper records stored in the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) and are delivered as digital scans through the BGS website.

A detailed index into information relating to mining activity and hazards contained within select field notebooks held by the British Geological Survey (BGS). Two former National Coal Board (NCB) surveyors created the index in the 1970s by examining the historical archive of geological field notebooks held by BGS (at the time IGS; Institute of Geological Sciences) at their London and Leeds offices, and extracting detailed information relating to mining activity. The data cover England and Wales only, and notebooks deposited or produced after 1975 would not have been included in the index. Only notebooks containing information relating to mining activity (and associated hazards) are included in the index, so the data are mostly constrained to traditional coalfield areas, though all mining information included in the notebooks considered is included. Later data (after 1960) recorded on field record cards or directly onto field slips are not included. The indices are paper records, with one document per notebook. The documents are tables containing page numbers, an extract of detailed information from the notebook, and a reference to a geological map sheet, where applicable. The indices have been scanned and are held as multi-page TIF files. The spatial data (British National Grid 5 km or 10 km grid squares) and geologist name, notebook number and page number have been digitised and are held in the BGS corporate database system. This information can be used to identify the original notebook by reference to the BGS field notebook index. The index is an important dataset to be considered under the Mines (Precautions Against Inrushes) Regulations 1979 (PAIR).

The BGS collection of 1:10 560 / 1:10 000 National Grid Series geological maps. These maps are based on the Ordnance Survey National Grid series of maps, which are defined by the 10 km intervals of the larger 100 km square identified by a specific two-letter code. Each map is thus denoted by a unique reference, e.g. SP 29 NW. SP=100 km square; 29=10 km square; NW=5 km square. Since field mapping is generally undertaken at the scale of 1:10 000 (or equivalent), these maps are the largest-scale main series of geological maps that BGS holds. A small number of remote areas were mapped at 1:25 000 scale, the subsequent maps are also at 1:25 000 scale and are included in this series. The equivalent to the National Grid Series prior to the 1960s is the County Series (at 1:10 560 scale). In the 1960s, this series started to be replaced by 6 inches to 1 mile (1:10 560 scale) National Grid sheets based on the four quadrants (NW, NE, SW, SE) of a 10 km Ordnance Survey National Grid square. Areal coverage provided by the National Grid series of large-scale maps is limited in extent and the preceding County series of six-inch maps can still be the most up to date map available for some areas. Geological maps represent a geologist's compiled interpretation of the geology of an area. A geologist will consider the data available at the time, including measurements and observations collected during field campaigns, as well as their knowledge of geological processes and the geological context to create a model of the geology of an area. This model is then fitted to a topographic basemap and drawn up at the appropriate scale, with generalization if necessary, to create a geological map, which is a representation of the geological model. Explanatory notes and vertical and horizontal cross sections may be published with the map. Geological maps may be created to show various aspects of the geology, or themes. The most common map themes held by BGS are solid (later referred to as bedrock) and drift (later referred to as superficial). These maps are, for the most part, hard-copy paper records stored in the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) and are delivered as digital scans through the BGS website.

These maps are based on the Ordnance Survey 'Old Series' One-Inch maps of England and Wales. They were the first 1:63 360 geological map series produced by the Geological Survey in England and Wales. Sheets were initially published as full sheets, and later as quarter sheets (NW, NE, SW, SE). Earlier maps are hand-coloured, later maps are colour-printed. The maps show both solid and drift geology. The OS 'Old Series' maps extended as far north as a line drawn between Preston and the Humber. To the north of this, the maps use the same sheetlines as the 1:63 360 New Series, and carry two sheet numbers, which refer to the Old Series (91-110) and New Series (1-73) numbering. These maps are common to both series. A sheet that covers the Isle of Man is also included in the series. Geological maps represent a geologist's compiled interpretation of the geology of an area. A geologist will consider the data available at the time, including measurements and observations collected during field campaigns, as well as their knowledge of geological processes and the geological context to create a model of the geology of an area. This model is then fitted to a topographic basemap and drawn up at the appropriate scale, with generalization if necessary, to create a geological map, which is a representation of the geological model. Explanatory notes and vertical and horizontal cross sections may be published with the map. Geological maps may be created to show various aspects of the geology, or themes. These maps are hard-copy paper records stored in the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) and are delivered as digital scans through the BGS website.