AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
England and Wales "1-Inch" geological map sheet petrological sample archive

Sometimes known as the "One-Inch Collection", this is an archival collection of rock samples collected by BGS field staff during surveys within England and Wales, arranged by 1-inch (or 50 K) scale BGS geological map sheet area. It was intended as a representative suite of the lithologies present in each sheet, although this was only partially achieved. Documentation is via archive of rock sample collection sheets (see COLLECTIONSHEETS) but is poorly coordinated at present.

Tags: NERC_DDC, Petrology
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Geotechnical site investigation records: Scotland and Northern England.

The collection of over 19,000 site investigation reports for Scotland and Northern England consists of records of boreholes, trial pits, geotechnical results and interpretative reports acquired from various sources. The collection started c.1960 to cater for the increasing amount of post-war shallow drilling for building and road construction which was kept separately by the Survey from the Borehole Journal collection reserved for deeper geologist examined mineral bores. The site investigation reports are available for consultation on microfilm. Only the factual parts of reports are available for public inspection. Reports for Northern England are held in the Shallow Borehole File (SB), now no longer added to. All site investigation reports (except SB files) are indexed on the Land Survey Record Index (LSRI) and all boreholes and trial pits contained in the reports (those with adequate site plans) are indexed on the Single Onshore Borehole Index (SOBI).

Tags: Boreholes, Geology, NERC_DDC, Site investigations
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Index data from field note record sheets

Index data from field note record sheets. These records are produced by BGS geologists as part of the geological mapping process and are written descriptions of localities, or sections, or records of measurements taken in the field. Most are linked to a specific field map. The index was setup in 1999 and covers the whole of Great Britain.

Tags: Field geology, General geology, Geological mapping, Geological maps, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Index to the National Geological Records Centre Accessions Collection

Index to acquisitions and donations of all types of geological record data. This information has been received from a variety of external organisations including public bodies and commercial concerns. The Oracle index was set up in 1988 and holds basic index information about the donor and the donation. The index has been expanded in 2009 to include other sections of BGS and covers all their donations. The majority are from Great Britain.

Tags: Boreholes, Engineering geology, Hydrogeology, Maps, NERC_DDC, Reports, Site investigations
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Accessions to the National Geological Records Centre

New acquisitions of all forms of geological data received from external organisations are recorded in the accessions database and the digital or analogue data itself is then available to users. Data is in the form of reports, plans and digital information. This information comes from a wide variety of sources, including public bodies and agencies and commercial organisations. The data itself will be incorporated into existing corporate collections or may form a new collection in its own right. The rate of transfer will depend on priorities and requirements of both internal and external users. Data is continuously removed from the collection, all except recently received material will have been processed.

Tags: Boreholes, Engineering geology, Hydrogeology, NERC_DDC, Site investigations
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Scottish water well records

The collection consists of records for c.5000 wells and springs in Scotland mostly lodged by drillers in compliance with the Water Act. These include data on well construction, water yields, water levels, water chemistry and well lithology. The collection is organised on the One-Inch Geological Sheet basis. Catalogues for wells in Central Scotland were published between 1963 and 1969. The BGS Single Onshore Borehole Index (SOBI) provides a partial digital index to the records.

Tags: Geology, Hydrogeology, NERC_DDC, Springs, Water, Water wells
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Sand and gravel resources assessment records: Scotland.

'Archive' collection of c.3,000 records of the former Industrial Minerals Assessment Unit (IMAU) relating to sand and gravel assessment projects in Scotland, 1978-88. Includes borehole and trial pit records, grading and resource assessment data and aggregate tests.

Tags: Geology, Gravel, Mineral resources, NERC_DDC, Sands
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Additional Information (AI): Scotland And Northern England.

Collections of miscellaneous items mainly of semi-current value, including some field observations supplementary to 1:10560/1:10K mapping, arranged on 1:10K or One-Inch sheet basis. Set up in 1950's filing miscellaneous records for Scotland and Northern England. Records of archival value for permanent retention being transferred to Land Survey Archives (LSA). Indexed in the Land Survey Record Index (LSRI).

Tags: Geology, Maps, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Mineral resources archive (Mra): Scotland and Northern England

Collection of c.5,000 items relating to economic mineral exploration and exploitation in Scotland (with some records for Northern England) pre c.1960. Incorporates Non-Ferrous Metallic Ores Committee and Mineral Development Committee records. Collection originally arranged by mineral commodity, but new data is added in accession order.

Tags: Geology, Minerals, NERC_DDC, Ores
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Mineral resource records (Mr); Scotland and Northern England.

The collection, amounting to c.6,000 records, consists of reports and data relating to geochemical sampling, geophysics, drilling and field mapping deposited by mineral exploration companies dating from c.1960 onwards. Major accessions include records of Mineral Exploration Incentive Grant Act (MEIGA) and reports and plans of Exploration Ventures Ltd (EVL) relating to NE Scotland. Indexed in Land Survey Record Index Database (LSRI).

Tags: Geology, Minerals, NERC_DDC, Specimen collecting
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Plans of abandoned mines (other than coal) Cumbria

The collection comprises photographic half plate black & white negative and 35mm colour transparency copies of plans of mine workings for haematite, gypsum, limestone, baryte and metalliferous minerals for Cumbria dating from 1872 onwards. The plans were originally deposited in compliance with the Coal and Metalliferous Mines Regulation acts. The original plans are currently held by Cumbria County Record Office on behalf of the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and total about 1240 plans. No digital index is available but a paper catalogue is provided by the Health & Safety Executive. As the collection relates to plans of mines abandoned after the 1872 Act, the holdings are fairly complete after this date. Note however, that the Metalliferous Mines Act originally applied only to mines employing more than 12 men, (eg. some limestone mines). Coal Authority may hold non-coal mine plans not covered by Mine Abandonment Plan collection.

Tags: Barite, Geology, Gypsum, Hematite, Limestone, Metalliferous minerals, Mine planning, Mining, NERC_DDC, Quarrying
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Uranium Geology Programme Mineral Samples.

Rock and mineral samples (c.12 000) from former investigations of uranium resource potential in UK and overseas by the UK Atomic Energy Division and the Institute of Geological Sciences. Material samples are accompanied by paper registers, unpublished brief technical reports and a card index. Selected samples have been incorporated into the BGS Reference Mineral Collection (REFMINS) and hence recorded in the BRITROCKS database.

Tags: Minerals, NERC_DDC, Uranium
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Plans of abandoned mines (other than coal and shale) Scotland

The collection comprises plans of mine workings for ironstone, fireclay, limestone, baryte and metalliferous minerals for Scotland dating from 1872 onwards deposited on abandonment of a mine in compliance with the coal and metalliferous mines regulation acts. The plans are held on behalf of the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and total about 610 plans. Indexed in the BGS Plans Database Index. As the collection relates to plans of mines abandoned after the 1872 Act, the holdings are fairly complete after this date. The Metalliferous Mines Act originally applied only to mines employing more than 12 men, (eg. some limestone mines). Where non-coal minerals were worked with coal, the abandonment plans are retained by the Coal Authority. Coal Authority also holds exclusively non-coal mine plans not covered by Mine Abandonment Plan collection. All non-confidential data held by NGRC Edinburgh (National Geological Records Centre). Mainly coalfield areas of Central Scotland with large collection relating to the Leadhills-Wanlockhead mining district.

Tags: Barite, Ironstone, Limestone, Metalliferous minerals, Mining, NERC_DDC, Quarrying, Refractory clays
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Land Survey Plans (LSP)

The Land Survey Plans collection of c.1,520 plans consists largely of mine plans acquired by the Survey, including 492 non-coal mine plans deposited by the National Coal Board 1984-87, and copies of mine plans derived from various sources including '6-inch reductions'. The collection also contains about 500 miscellaneous plans extracted from other Land Survey records in order to benefit from specialised systems of archival storage. The Survey's collection of Northern England mine plans are being added to the LSP collection. The collection supplements the Plans Of Abandoned Mines (Other than Coal & Oil Shale) in Scotland (NONCOALPLANSCO) providing an index to plans other than coal and oil shale for Scotland. Indexed on BGS Plans Database Index. Coal Authority hold some non-coal plans for Scotland. All non-confidential data held by NGRC(N) is available to users. Mainly coalfield areas of Central Scotland.

Tags: Barite, Limestone, Mining, NERC_DDC, Quarrying
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Land Survey Archives (LSA): Scotland and Northern England

The Land Survey Archives consists of records of the Geological Survey in Scotland for permanent retention dating from 1860s onwards. The collection comprises geologists' field notebooks, miscellaneous field observations and reports, historical and biographical material, correspondence files, photographs, etc. Includes archival material deposited by outside individuals and organisations, eg. NCB (National Coal Board) Bore Book Collection. Survey archival material for Northern England will be incorporated. Some 380 accessions held amounting to over 7,000 items. Indexed at collection level in Land Survey Record Index (LSRI). Plans abstracted and held separately in Land Survey Plans Collection.

Tags: Archives, Geology, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Soil and Rock Spectra from the UK and World Determined from Portable Infrared Mineral Analysis (PIMA).

The database contains spectra of rock and soil that have predominantly been captured using a Portable Infrared Mineral Analyser although other instruments may also have been used.

Tags: Carbonates, Clay minerals, Geochemistry, NERC_DDC, Rock forming minerals, Spectra
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Satellite imagery of the UK/World (digital)

**This dataset has been withdrawn and is no longer avaible from BGS** The database contains satellite images of the UK purchased by the BGS or on its behalf by NERC. It includes data from the Lansdat, SPOT, Radarsat and ERS satellites. The images are stored in proprietary format on various types of magnetic media. The data are currently stored by path-row scene numbers and as mosaics on tapes, CDs and drives. Entire UK is covered by the dataset, however, there are gaps in coverage from individual sensors. Coverage exists for countries (or parts of countries) where work has been carried out.

Tags: Imagery, Landsat, NERC_DDC, Remote sensing, Satellite imagery
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
UK Magnetic Observatory Magnetograms.

Magnetograms are records of variations in the strength and direction of the Earth’s magnetic field. Historically these magnetograms were recorded on paper using photographic techniques. In the UK, measurements were made at eight long-running observatories; Abinger, Eskdalemuir, Falmouth, Greenwich, Hartland, Kew, Lerwick, and Stonyhurst. BGS also hold magnetogram records from the Cape Evans observatory that ran continuously at Robert Falcon Scott’s Antarctic base camp during the British Antarctic Expedition 1910–13. The magnetogram collection, one of the longest running geomagnetic series in the world, provides a continuous record of more than 160 years of UK measurements. These magnetograms start in the 1840s and end in 1986 at which time digital recording of the magnetic field took over and magnetograms can be produced by computer graphic. The plots show variation in the Earth's magnetic field, typically over a 24-hour period. The collection is a valuable, partly untapped data resource for studying geomagnetic storms, space weather and the evolution of the Earth’s magnetic field. The magnetograms provide insight into: • the Earth’s outer core: long-term change (years to centuries) in the dynamo that sustains our magnetic field • space weather: short-term changes (seconds to days) in near-Earth space and on the ground • space climate: long-term change (decades to centuries) in solar activity and consequences for Earth’s environment All the above have an impact on human activities. For example, bad space weather affects technologies that we increasingly rely on, such as electrical power and GPS networks. In response to the threat of loss from degradation due to age and a desire to preserve and exploit old data, BGS undertook a programme of work to digitally photograph, archive and preserve the analogue paper records of magnetic field variation in the United Kingdom. Between 2009 and 2013, high-quality digital images of every available magnetogram were taken. These images are available to search online. Scientists and the general public around the world can now gain easy access to this historical dataset.

Tags: Geomagnetism, NERC_DDC, Observatories
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
UK Geomagnetic Observatory Hourly Mean Values.

Digital hourly mean values of the Geomagnetic field elements from Lerwick, Eskdalemuir, Abinger and Hartland Observatories. Eskdalemuir data are available from 1911, Lerwick from 1926, Hartland from 1957 and all three are available up to yesterday's date. Values from Abinger (1926-1956) are available on request. Most data are definitive, but recent data (within the last 203 years) are provisional and may be corrected in the future. Values of declination (D), horizontal intensity (H) and vertical intensity (Z) are available. The units of declination are degrees. Declination is negative when west of true north. The units of horizontal intensity and vertical intensity are nT (nanotesla). Vertical intensity is positive in the downwards direction. The data from these observatories will not only aid scientific research into rates of change of the magnetic field and increase the accuracy of the BGS Global Geomagnetic Model, but will also provide data to exploration geophysicists engaged in current and future oil exploration.

Tags: Geomagnetism, Monitoring, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2019, Shell UK Ltd, Brent North North Anchoring Condition Survey, Site Survey, DECC Reference Number GS_886

An oil and gas industry anchoring conditions survey acquired under licences P104, P257, P117, P2460 in July 2018. The block numbers traversed were 211/24, 211/25, 211/29, 211/30.

Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Geophysical surveys in Latin America

Data from geophysical surveys in many South American and Caribbean countries carried out by the British Geological Survey for different agencies. The surveys range from regional gravity and airborne magnetic mapping to targetted surveys for mineral and water. Individual surveys do not yet have metadata entries: this entry describes a notional database that represents all geophysical surveys carried out within the region.

Tags: Aerial geophysical surveys, Geophysical surveys, Geophysics, NERC_DDC, Regional geology
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Land Survey Record Index Database (LSRI); Scotland and Northern England

The Land Survey Record Index was set up c.1988 to provide a digital database index to records and archives held by the Land Survey in Scotland and Northern England and contains over 46,600 records. Finding aid to the following record groups/data sets, is provided through a application query interface: Site Investigation Records (SE); Land Survey Archives (LSA); Land Survey Records (LSR); Mineral Resource Records (MR); Additional Information Files (AI); Enquiry Record Files (EE; EN); Opencast Coal Sites (OC).

Tags: Boreholes, Geology, NERC_DDC, Reports, Site investigations
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Scottish quarries database

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.

Tags: Aggregates, Building stones, Geology, Gravel, Land filling, Limestone, Mining, NERC_DDC, Natural hazards, Quarrying, Sands, Sandstone
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Industrial minerals resources map of Britain

The map show the broad distribution of the industrial, including construction, mineral resources of Britain and the main sites where these are worked. Over extensive areas bedrock is covered by superficial deposits, including economically important sand and gravel resources. These superficial deposits are not shown on the map. Resources have been defined by dominant lithology (rock type). The map is a synthesis of the mineral resources and mineral working data held by the BGS in 1996. The published (paper) map has not been superseded however the digital mineral resources and mineral workings data has since been superseded. The map is logically consistent throughout.

Tags: Construction materials, Industrial minerals, Mineral resources, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Prees 2B Site Investigation Core Drillers Log (NERC Grant NE/N018508/1)

This document is the drillers log of strata encountered during site investigation work. The log was made in the field during drilling at Prees, Shropshire on 8th to 10th January 2020. The log includes basic information on lithology and drilling equipment used and depths of the individual core runs.

Tags: Jurassic, Lithology, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Ab initio calculations and high P-T experiments on iron, iron alloys and other materials (NERC Grant NE/M015181/1)

This collection includes the elastic calculations of the hcp-Fe-Si-S-C alloy system. NERC grant NE/M015181/1 - Pre melting in iron and iron alloys: ab initio calculations and high P-T experiments on iron, iron alloys and other materials

Tags: Earth core, Elasticity, Iron, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Marine Hydroacoustic data from Anak Krakatau Eruption December 2018 (NERC grant NE/S003509/1)

Multibeam bathymetric Echosounder (MBES) and Sparker seismic acquired August 2019. NSFGEO-NERC Grant: Tsunamis from large volume eruptions

Tags: Multibeam, NERC_DDC, Sparker sound source
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Geochemical analyses of the Huainan Basin, the Taoudeni Basin and the Anamikie Basin (NERC Grant ref NE/I00596X/1)

Geochemical data for the Huainan Basin include Fe speciation data; P speciation data; elemental Al, Fe, P, Mn, Sr data, total organic carbon; C isotope ratios of organic C and carbonates. Geochemical data for the Taoudeni Basin and the Anamikie Basin include Fe speciation data; P speciation data; and elemental P and total organic carbon analyses.

Tags: Chemical analysis, NERC_DDC, Phosphorus
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Water Partitioning between Liquid Iron and Silicate Melt at High Pressure and High Temperature (NERC Grant NE/M015181/1, NE/S01134X/1)

The partitioning coefficients of water between iron and silicate melts at 20, 50, 90 and 135 gigapascals (corresponding to 2800, 3500, 3900 and 4200 kelvin) were calculated by using ab initio molecular dynamics and thermodynamic integration techniques. The Gibbs free energy of a series of iron and silicate melts with different concentrations of H2/H2O were calculated. Then the chemical potentials of H2/H2O were derived from the concentration dependent Gibbs free energies at each pressure temperature. The partitioning coefficients can be calculated by equating the chemical potential of H2/H2O in iron and silicate melts. The Weeks-Chandler-Andersen (WCA) system with established thermodynamics was used as the reference.

Tags: NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
River data: Calabria, Italy (NERC grant NE/L002515/1)

River elevation and catchment area data for major rivers in Calabria, Italy (one river profile in each file). Data were extracted from 1 arc second SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) Digital Elevation Models using the Arc GIS hydrology toolbox between October 2015 and October 2019. These river profiles were acquired for fluvial inversion to calculate rock uplift in Calabria.

Tags: NERC_DDC, Rivers, Topography
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2019, Serica Energy, Pipeline and Well Site Survey - Sub-Bottom Profiler & 2D Seismic Survey, Site Survey, DECC Reference Number GS_880

An oil and gas industry pipeline and well site survey acquired in May 2019. The block numbers traversed were 23/16f, 23/21a, 23/16a, 23/21b.

Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)