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Aquifer designation: bedrock
Aquifer designation: superficial
Artificial deposits: flow type
Artificial deposits: maximum permeability
Artificial deposits: minimum permeability
BGS Civils: bulking volume
BGS Civils: bundle
BGS Civils: corrosivity (ferrous)
BGS Civils: discontinuities
BGS Civils: engineered fill
BGS Civils: excavatability
BGS Civils: foundations
BGS Civils: strength
BGS Civils: sulfate/sulfide
BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid
BGS GeoSure: London shrink-swell 3D
BGS GeoSure: debris flow
BGS Geology 10k
BGS Geology 250k
BGS Geology 25k
BGS Geology 50k
BGS Geology 50k: view only
BGS Geology 625k
BGS coastal vulnerability
BGS groundwater vulnerability (England/Wales)
BGS hydrogeology 625K
BGS marine gravity surveys
BGS marine magnetic surveys
BGS mining hazard (not including coal) 1 km hex grid
BGS resistivity
BGS total organic carbon
BGS vitrinite reflectance
BGS/EA/NRW groundwater vulnerability (England/Wales)
BRITPITS
Bedrock: flow type
Bedrock: maximum permeability
Bedrock: minimum permeability
Borehole geology database
Britpits (active, inactive and dormant sites)
Bundle: permeability and superficial thickness
Coal Authority geophysical borehole logs
Coal Authority seismic survey
Collapsible deposits (GeoSure)
Compressible ground (GeoSure)
County maps 6 inch
Density of upper 2 m: description
Density of upper 2 m: max
Density of upper 2 m: min
Density of upper 2 m: number of blows
Density of upper 2 m: typical
Depth to groundwater
Engineering fill
Excavatability
Fossil localities
Fossil specimens
G-BASE for UK soils in urban areas
G-BASE panned drainage sediment
G-BASE soil profile samples
G-BASE stream sediment samples
G-BASE stream water samples
G-BASE top soil samples
GB aeromagnetic survey
GB land gravity survey
GeoClimate Premium: UKCP09
GeoClimate Premium: UKCP18
GeoSure insurance product
Geochemical samples
Geological indicators of flooding
Geological memoirs
Geophysical borehole logs
Geophysical image atlases
Groundwater level archive
High-resolution airborne surveys
Historical mineral planning permissions
Hydrogeological classification: character
Hydrogeological classification: class
Hydrogeological maps of Scotland
Indicative Atlas of Radon
Infiltration SuDS map: detailed
Infiltration SuDS map: extranet
Infiltration SuDS map: summary
Landslides (GeoSure)
Landslides (index)
Lithoframe10
Lithoframe250
Lithoframe50
LondonEarth
Marine geology 250k
Marine sediments 250k
Mass movement: flow type
Mass movement: maximum permeability
Mass movement: minimum permeability
Mineral assessment reports
Mineral occurrences database
Mineral resource data
Minimum geological age (era)
Mining hazards (not including coal)
Modern and historical recorded earthquakes
Offshore hydrocarbon wells
Offshore seabed samples
Old series maps 1inch
Onshore borehole samples
Onshore drillcore
Onshore hydrocarbon wells
Opencast coal prospecting areas
Paper 10 000 scale geological map series
Paper 50 000 scale geological map series
Radon potential
Regional geochemical atlas series
Resistivity
Rock genesis
Rock samples
Running sands (GeoSure)
SOBI
Shrink-swell (GeoSure)
Site investigation reports
Soil chemistry for environmental assessments: all elements
Soil chemistry: arsenic (Eng/Wal)
Soil chemistry: arsenic (Scot)
Soil chemistry: cadmium (Eng/Wal)
Soil chemistry: cadmium (Scot)
Soil chemistry: chromium (Eng/Wal)
Soil chemistry: chromium (Scot)
Soil chemistry: lead (Eng/Wal)
Soil chemistry: lead (Scot)
Soil chemistry: nickel (Eng/Wal)
Soil chemistry: nickel (Scot)
Soil group
Soil: Relative calcium carbonate content
Soil: calcium carbonate form
Soil: colour when fresh
Soil: colour when weathered
Soil: dominant grain size
Soil: dominant mineralogy
Soil: estimated texture
Soil: gravel abundance
Soil: gravel content
Soil: maximum grain size
Soil: minimum grain size
Soil: minor mineralogy
Soil: parent material lithology
Soil: parent material origin
Soil: parent material root
Soil: spatial lateral variability
Soil: structure when fresh
Soil: structure when weathered
Soil: texture
Soil: typical grain size
Soil: vertical spatial variability
Soluble rocks (GeoSure)
Strength
Strength of upper 2 m: Mpa
Strength of upper 2 m: description
Strength of upper 2 m: maximum
Strength of upper 2 m: minimum
Strength of upper 2 m: typical
Superficial deposit or bedrock at ground surface
Superficial deposit: flow type
Superficial deposit: maximum permeability
Superficial deposit: minimum permeability
Susceptibility to groundwater flooding
Technical reports
Thickness of superficial deposits
UK and world mineral statistics data
UK hydrogeological maps
UKOGL exploration seismic data
Urban geochemical reports
Waste sites
Water well index
Water wells with aquifer property measurements
Water wells with water level measurements
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