AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Geotechnical data from applied geology projects

A coherent series of flat-file geotechnical datasets generated during the applied geology mapping of Exeter, Deeside, Coventry, Nottingham, Bath, Castleford/Pontefract, and the Black Country, and mapping of the Thame 1:50k sheet. For each of these projects, data were abstracted from the available site investigations within the mapping area. The structure of the datasets is limited, in that all geological and geotechnical data are attributed to 'samples' at discrete depths. The datasets include the more common geotechnical parameters, although some are entered as only class intervals, rather than in detail. All the datasets are held as paper coding sheets, with minor variations between projects. Most were digitised in Smartware and/or Statgraphics software and may not be readily accessible.

Tags: Engineering geology, NERC_DDC, Rock stratigraphic unit, Site investigations
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Prime geological data - deep mine coal

Prime Geological Data resulting from deep underground coal exploration and exploitation produced by the British Coal Board and/or its precursors. The collection dates back to the 18th century and covers all the British coal mining areas and includes borehole site plans, borehole logs, analyses and geophysical data etc. Apart from primary data relating to past and current collieries and for future prospects the information includes reports, interpretations and records of research. The majority of the collection was deposited with the National Geological Records Centre by the Coal Authority in July 2001.

Tags: Boreholes, Coal, Gases, General geology, Geophysics, Hydrocarbons, Mines, NERC_DDC, Oil
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Mines and quarries database - BritPits

List of mines and quarries in the UK including information about operational status, products, lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, pit and operator addresses, minerals planning authority. Digital data has been sold from the BritPits database, since 1994, this has been customised to suit purchasers. Use is also made of sets of operational workings data by Bureau Services who pay royalties and get updates. Older data on operators tends to be incomplete as it was not recorded. Updating is ongoing to update litho- and chronostrat data. Originally, only details of currently active sites were included in the database but, because of the importance of former workings for waste disposal and as Sites of Special Scientific Interest, information is now collected on both inactive and closed operations. The data is held in a relational database using an Oracle server and a Microsoft Access front-end. The database can be used for many purposes: mailing lists, route planning, market intelligence/analysis, and resource planning, and data has been supplied to a wide range of customers.

Tags: Commodity economics, Mines, Mining, NERC_DDC, Open cut mining, Quarrying, Sand pits
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Borehole Records Collection.

Records of all onshore (or near shore) boreholes, trial pits, shafts and wells held in the BGS archives in either paper, microfilm or digital format. The records range from simple single page lithological logs through to hydrocarbon completion reports. Spatial coverage will vary considerably depending on drilling activity, collecting activity and donations. The majority of new data is from site investigation reports with concentrations in urban areas and along transport routes. Current collection over 1million records covering the whole of Great Britain with 50,000 new records added per annum. Some records date back to 1600 but the majority date from 1900 onwards. Copies of records are available in hard copy or digital formats subject to confidentiality.

Tags: Geology, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Interpreted Seismic Database

A set of seismic track data and accompanying interpretations in XGEO proprietary format. All of the data are project based and are commercially obtained. The interpretations and track data are confidential to the customer. Track data is digitised from maps and charts and combined with digitised seismic profile data interpreted by the geologist. Data are held by project and by user id. All project based datasets are complete but these data are not available to users except where explicit permission has been sought from the data supplier. Seismic track data is usually sampled at every 10th shotpoint. This represents a sampling interval of 250m. The seismic sections will have limits in two way time up to 10 seconds. Data is presented to UKOOA and SEQ standards in terms of data formats. There is a low level of consistency in reflector nomenclature inter-project but totally consistent intra-project.

Tags: Geology, Marine geology, Marine seismic surveys, NERC_DDC, Seismic surveys
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Interpreted seismic and well data

This dataset represents a project-based collection of seismic interpretations of 2D and 3D commercial seismic reflection data. These data are integrated in a relational database in ORACLE in a data model called OpenWorks. Well log data, stratigraphic, velocity and well and seismic location data are also held in the database. Data interpretations are held within project indices by interpreter. Interpretations include faults and lithostratigraphic horizons. All data are commercial-in-confidence and cannot be supplied to any third party without the explicit permission of the customer or supplier.

Tags: Geology, Marine geology, Marine seismic surveys, NERC_DDC, Seismic data, Well logging
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Index to deep mine data

High level index to the contents of the boxes of Primary Geological Data resulting from deep underground coal exploration and exploitation in Great Britain donated by the Coal Authority in July 2001. Data for past and current collieries and for future prospects including borehole site plans, borehole logs , analyses and geophysical data etc. This index will diminish in importance as these data are merged with existing collections.

Tags: Boreholes, Coal, General geology, Geophysics, Hydrocarbons, Mine shafts, Mines, NERC_DDC, Oil
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Metal Speciation And Bioavailability For Risk Assessment And Remediation.

The full title of this project is" Studies into metal speciation and bioavailability to assist risk assessment and remediation of brownfield sites in urban areas" and is funded by NERC under the URGENT thematic programme form 1998-2001. The project is being undertaken by a consortium of workers from the Imperial College, University of Nottingham, and the British Geological Survey. Innovative collaborative and multi-disciplinary research will be applied to the interpretation of urban geochemical maps and associated meta-datasets to assist decision making by local authorities in the redevelopment of brownfield sites. Source apportionment, speciation and bioavailability of potentially toxic heavy metals will be studied at representative conurbations in the UK Midlands region. Scanning electron microscopy, chemical extractions and soil solution and vegetable analysis, will be integrated with high precision isotopic analyses of Pb and other potential toxic metals in this study. The results will be available as maps in GIS format to provide a generic decision support system for quantitative health risk assessment.

Tags: Geochemistry, Minerals, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Natural Analogues

Data from projects that investigated the migration, transport and retardation processes of naturally occuring trace elements, as analogues the behaviour in the geosphere environment, of radionuclides from radioactive wastes. Study sites included: the Quaternary Broubster Peat Bog, near Thurso in Caithness (study of the migration behaviour and characteristics of U, Th, Ra, Pb, Cu, Zn, organic complexes such as fulvic and humic acids); the Needle's Eye site (Quaternary estuarine and marsh/mudflat sediments) on the Solway Coast of Dumfries and Galloway (study of the migration and retardation behaviour of U in Quaternary sediments and fractured Palaeozoic source rocks); Study of U geochemistry and transport behaviour from uranium-rich mine wastes at the South Terras Mine site, near St Austell, Cornwall; Study of the geochemistry of diffusion of Cl and I from marine source sediments into lacustrine sediments in Quaternary sediments from Loch Lomond. Data consists entirely of published reports of geological, geochemical, hydrochemical petrological and mineralogical information. The data includes descriptive and numerical data but is not digitally available in its present state.

Tags: Geochemistry, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Contaminated Land.

Data related to contaminated land projects completed under commercial contract for local authorities (ConSEPT). The data held and used in the project included published BGS data (borehole, BGS Geology 50k and 10k, water well information), as well as third party data held on behalf of local authorities (including current and historical land use polygons and landfill sites) for the purposes of building the ConSEPT GIS. Consequently some data and the projects are strictly commercial in confidence and should not be shared.

Tags: Contamination, Geochemistry, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Northern Peru Regional Geochemical Exploration Survey.

During the period 1967 to 1971 a team of geoscientists carried out a programme of regional geological mapping in parts of Peru and a low-density regional geochemical exploration survey of the Western Cordillera of northern Peru. The work was funded by the UK Overseas Development Administration (ODA - now the Department for International Development, DfID) in collaboration with the Servicio de Geologia y Mineria (SGM), Lima, Peru (now INGEMMET). The geochemical exploration project was managed by a BGS geologist/ geochemist and supported by counterpart staff from the SGM. Locational and analytical data, maps and interpretative unpublished reports were deposited at the SGM in Lima in 1971. The geochemical data are a long term asset and continued interest in the results, particularly in recent years, has required that the data be made more readily available in a digital format. Some 1345 sites were sampled and stream sediments were analysed for Cu, Pb, Zn, (Co), Ag, Mo, (As), and (V). Raw data can be obtained from INGEMMET, AV Canada, 1470, San Borja, Lima, PERU. The sample location data have been digitised from a sample site map, as the original field sample cards and the port-a-punch cards were not retrievable in 1998/99. The sample site map was a paper copy - so, although the UTM co-ordinates for locations are given to the nearest metre, the true location of the original sample sites may vary by as much as 500 m, or in some cases even more. GENP 1967-71 was a low-density regional exploration survey based on the collection of some 1260 samples at key sites within the 25,000 km2 project area - a density of approximately 1 sample per 20 km2. Data cleaned for absent and below detection limit values.

Tags: Exploration, Geochemical exploration, Geochemical mapping, Geochemistry, Geology, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Index to the BGS technical reports collection

Index to the reports of work carried out by the BGS and its precursors. The index was set up in 1988 and has worldwide coverage. These reports cover a wide range of scientific and technical disciplines and were produced for a variety of purposes. The reports are not published but copies can be provided on demand subject to any restrictions. All registered Technical Reports held in collection are indexed. Start date of digital index circa 1988. Technical reports date from circa 1950 onwards.

Tags: Engineering geology, Geochemistry, Geology, Geomagnetism, Geophysics, Hydrogeology, Marine geology, Mineralogy, NERC_DDC, Petrology, Reports, Seismology, Technical reports
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
URGENT - Urban Regeneration and the Environment

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.

Tags: Contamination, NERC_DDC, Pollution, Water
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Plant registers of the Kidston collection

4 volumes of the donations by Kidston of onshore British (predominantly Palaeozoic) plants. Geological and geographical information, notes and photos are present. Kidston's own numbering system was maintained: 1-7319. Reference is also made to the publication in which specimens were illustrated.

Tags: Fossils, NERC_DDC, Palaeontology, Palaeozoic
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Environmental radioactivity database

BGS have collected environmental radioactivity data for various purposes over several decades. This is being drawn together to produce a database of baseline gamma radioactivity and radon. Data includes the relevant portions of airborne and ground gamma spectrometer surveys, mineral exploration, baseline geochemistry and environmental radiometric surveys along with lithogeochemical and borehole log data. It is predominantly a specialist subset of other existing BGS databases. Incomplete UK coverage.

Tags: Gamma radiation, Geochemistry, NERC_DDC, Radioactivity surveys, Radon gas
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
London office registers of palaeontological thin sections

Three registers of thin sections of predominantly Palaeozoic macrofossils together with algae, plants and a very few radiolarians and spores. The locality and geological horizon is also given It includes various collections including Garwood collection. There is cross reference where specimens have been re-registered. Also information about where specimens have been illustrated in the literature. PF1-7374 have been used.

Tags: Algae, Macrofossils, NERC_DDC, Palaeontology, Palaeozoic, Radiolaria, Thin sections
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Public Health England (PHE) - British Geological Survey (BGS) Joint Radon Dataset for England and Wales

The joint PHE-BGS digital radon potential dataset provides the current definitive map of radon Affected Areas in England and Wales. It will also allow an estimate to be made of the probability that an individual property in England and Wales is at or above the Action Level for radon. This information also provides an answer to one of the standard legal enquiries on house purchase in England and Wales, known as CON29 standard Enquiry of Local Authority; 3.13 Radon Gas: Location of the Property in a Radon Affected Area. The radon potential dataset will also provide information on the level of protection required for new buildings under as described in the latest Building Research Establishment guidance on radon protective measures for new buildings (BR 211 2007). This radon potential hazard information for England and Wales is based on Public Health England (PHE) indoor radon measurements and BGS digital geology information. This product was derived from DigMap50 V3.14 and PHE in-house radon measurement data. The indoor radon data is used with the agreement of the PHE. Confidentiality of measurement locations is maintained through data management practices. Access to the data is restricted. This dataset has been superseded by PHE-BGS Joint Radon Potential Dataset For Great Britain. Radon is a natural radioactive gas, which enters buildings from the ground. Exposure to high concentrations increases the risk of lung cancer. The Health Protection Agency recommends that radon levels should be reduced in homes where the annual average is at or above 200 becquerels per cubic metre (200 Bq m-3). This is termed the Action Level. The Health Protection Agency defines radon Affected Areas as those with 1% chance or more of a house having a radon concentration at or above the Action Level of 200 Bq m-3. The dataset was originally developed by BGS with the Health Protection Agency (HPA) which is now part of Public Health England.

Tags: Geochemistry, Geology, NERC_DDC, Natural hazards, Radon detection
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
International Regional Geochemistry

A collection of regional geochemical data, mainly from stream sediment surveys, gathered from many BGS overseas projects since 1960s. Some areas are well covered and well documented with data available digitally on CD-ROM. Projects from 1960s and 1970s generally have no digital data and information exists only in paper form.

Tags: Geochemical exploration, Geochemical maps, Geochemistry, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Ground Movements: Shrink/Swell Clays Project

The main aim of the project is to determine the shrinkage and swelling properties of UK clays and mudrocks and to investigate the relationships between them. Thus leading to a better understanding of the shrink/swell behaviour for the user community. Dataset contains geotechnical, physical, mineralogical and geochemical data.

Tags: Clays, Engineering geology, Geochemical data, Mineralogy, NERC_DDC, Physical properties
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Collections of Aerial Photographs

Collections of Aerial Photographs purchased or obtained by BGS and its precursors as part of its surveying activities. Data covers mainly Great Britain or areas where BGS has worked overseas and dates from the 1940's. The collection is incomplete and there are copyright and other constraints on its use.

Tags: Aerial photographs, General geology, NERC_DDC, Photography, Remote sensing
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
10k sheet data files

An important paper archive of a wide variety of miscellaneous geological information organised on the basis of its location within 1:10 000 scale geological map sheet areas in Great Britain. The majority of the data has been produced or collected from a wide variety of sources by BGS staff since 1835. Mainly acquired as part of the mapping programme new information is added on a regular basis. The data may not fit into any of the main collections, but is valuable for future projects and answering enquiries.

Tags: Boreholes, Coal, Geology, Maps, Mine shafts, Mining, NERC_DDC, Resource assessment, Water
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Calcareous Microfossil Registers

Register of microfossil analyses carried out in the Leeds and London Office during the 1970s and 1980s held in book form and in box files. They are arranged as follows: SAA 1-4409 Calcareous Microfossils onshore; SAB1-3229 Calcareous Microfossils (London) Jurassic onshore; SAC1-3247 Calcareous microfossils (Leeds) Jurassic and Cretaceous onshore; SAD1-1593 Palaeozoic microfossils onshore; SAG 1-2062 Chalk foraminifera onshore; SAY1-1888 Calcareous microfossils offshore; SAZ1-2261 Calcareous microfossils from Continental Shelf (South).

Tags: Foraminifera, Microfossils, NERC_DDC, Palaeontology, Palaeozoic
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Index to the BGS collection of geologist's field notebooks and section books.

[This metadata record has been superseded, see http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608197] An index to the manuscript notebook collection was set up in the 1990's. The notebooks themselves contain detailed information gathered by BGS geologists (or other recognised geologists) from various sources as part of the mapping of Great Britain since the 1840s. Examples include observations linked directly to field slips, borehole logs, sections and drawings. All the notebooks held by National Geological Records Centre (NGRC) are indexed but other notebooks held in the Library may not be included. The index is to the notebooks and is not a detailed index of the information in the notebook. Detailed information from coalfield areas is held in the Happs Hall Index. For the basic field mapping work notebooks have now been replaced by field record sheets.

Tags: Boreholes, Field geology, Geological mapping, Geology, Hydrogeology, Maps, Minerals, Mines, NERC_DDC, Pollution
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Minerals Programme geochemistry database

The Mineral Reconnaissance Programme (MRP), funded by the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) carried out baseline mineral exploration in Great Britain between 1972 and 1997. Its main aim was to stimulate private-sector exploration and the development of indigenous mineral resources. It has been subsumed into the new BGS Minerals Programme, also funded by the DTI. The Programme provides information and advice to industry, enables technology transfer and promotes wealth creation through the effective sustainable development of Britain's mineral resources. The database contains information from the MRP together with some from earlier programmes and the new Minerals Programme. Information from the early 1970s was largely concerned with the search for uranium and base-metals, while since the 1980s gold and platinum-group elements (PGEs) have dominated. A range of pathfinder elements have also been determined. Data is held on the geochemistry of drainage stream sediments, panned concentrates, soil, deep overburden, rock and drillcore samples. All geochemical results are used to populate corporate Geochemistry Database.

Tags: Geochemistry, Minerals, NERC_DDC, Soil chemistry
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Stratigraphic Surfaces Database.

This database stores down-hole stratigraphic data to complement the seismic surface picks stored in the Seismic Locations And Sections Database (LOCSEC). Because these surfaces are chosen for their visibility on seismic data, they may not be directly equivalent to established BGS lithostratigraphic and/or choronstratigraphic divisions. However, the local coding system is based on and can relate to the BGS stratigraphic LEXICON. Stratigraphic picks are stored in terms of depth and seismic one-way travel time. Local borehole summary information (location, elevation, etc.) is used because both onshore and offshore boreholes are stored in this database. These data can be related to the BGS onshore borehole database by borehole registration, and to the offshore well database by DTI well-id. Additional tables (under development) provide information on hydrocarbon tests and their results. Almost all data are within the UK Onshore area; although there are some UK near-shore and offshore (North Sea, Irish Sea).

Tags: Boreholes, Geophysical surveys, Geophysics, NERC_DDC, Seismic reflection surveys
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)