BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections

BGS image ID: P849851  This poster was found in the back of a scrapbook that belonged to Roderick Murchison (1792-1871) who was Direc...

BGS Image ID:  P711323 This is one of a series of photographs taken July to September 1892 that gave rise to the Monti Silvestri crater ...

Fig. 1. View of the Glen near Ardlun Head in Mull. Fig. 2. View of the insulated Rock at the termination of the Glen. Fig. 3. A view of...

BGS image ID: P742383 James Croll was born in 1821, the son of a Perthshire stonemason and crofter. He was to suffer from ill health thr...

BGS image ID: P842013 This letter is from W H Spaull who was a magistrate at Oswestry. He is enquiring about geologist Charles Bertie We...

BGS image ID:  P201180 Parish's Loam Work, Erith. This is the southern portion of the great pit, entered along the southern tramline...

BGS image ID:  P001315 Oblique aerial view of Blindwells Opencast Site, Tranent, East Lothian, looking from the east-north-east. Working...

BGS image ID:   P505852 Joseph Beete Jukes 1811-1869. Born at Summerhill, near Birmingham. Studied under Sedgwick. Worked in Newfoundla...

BGS image ID: P528115 Samples of the different distillates and products that are produced during the processing of Scottish oil-shale. S...

BGS image ID: P001513 Oblique aerial view of the Westfield Opencast Coal Mine from the north-east Fife Region. Cut to extract the abnorm...