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issued: 2026-08-20T23:32:27.942767
modified: 2026-08-20T23:32:27.889871

British Geological Survey (BGS)
type: Organization

REPORT - User guide : BGS Geology 10k-25k v3
type: Distribution
access URL: https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/540336/
description: British Geological Survey. 2025 User guide : BGS Geology 10k-25k v3. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 36pp. (OR/24/042) (Unpublished)
issued: 2026-08-20T23:32:27.942770
modified: 2026-08-20T23:32:27.890017

BGS Geology 10-25K
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access URL: https://www.bgs.ac.uk/datasets/bgs-geology-10k/
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issued: 2026-08-20T23:32:27.942769
modified: 2026-08-20T23:32:27.889959

BGS Geology 10k - 25k (DiGMapGB-10 & DiGMapGB-25) Superficial version 3
type: Dataset
keyword: Surficial geology
keyword: Geology
keyword: Geological maps
keyword: GIS
keyword: NERC_DDC
keyword: Geological data
description: Data identifying landscape areas (shown as polygons) attributed with geological names and rock type descriptions. The scale of the data is 1:10 000 and 1:25 000 scale. Onshore coverage is partial with approximately 52% of England, Scotland, and Wales available in the version 3 data release. BGS intend to continue developing coverage at this scale; current focus is to include all large priority urban areas, along with road and rail transport corridors. Superficial deposits are the youngest geological deposits formed during the most recent period of geological time, the Quaternary, which extends back about 2.58 million years from the present. They lie on top of older deposits or rocks referred to as bedrock. Superficial deposits were laid down by various natural processes such as action by ice, water, wind, and weathering. As such, the deposits are denoted by their BGS lexicon name, which classifies them the basis of their mode of origin (lithogenesis) with names such as, 'glacial deposits', 'river terrace deposits' or 'blown sand'; or the basis of their composition such as 'peat'. Most of these superficial deposits are unconsolidated sediments such as gravel, sand, silt, and clay. The digital data includes attribution to identify each deposit type (in varying levels of detail) as described in the BGS Rock Classification Scheme (volume 4). The data are available in vector format (containing the geometry of each feature linked to a database record describing their attributes) as ESRI shapefiles and are available under BGS data licence.
issued: 2026-06-18T16:21:58.475792
modified: 2026-08-20T23:32:27.883383
spatial: Location
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