BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections

BGS Image ID:   P704769   CALX carbonata; var. inversa. Inverse crystallized Carbonate of Lime. Plate no. 143 From: Sowerby, Jame...

A geologist with the then Ordnance Geological Survey (now the British Geological Survey) from its inception in 1835 and a contemporary of ...

Cover for the folded sheet 286 Reigate (Drift) 1:63,360 map. 1938. The illustration on the cover is common to all sheets issued '...

Extract from the map Geological cross-section Section of the key Carte géologique du terrain entre le lac d'Orta et celu...

Plate VIII.  Basalt with glassy magma mainly devitrified. Brent Tor, North-west side of the foot of the Tor, Magnification x55. The ...

BGS Image ID:  P209857 Sunken lane, road from Thorncombe Street leading to Godalming via Munstead Heath, Surrey. Looking north-west a...

BGS Image ID: P509016 The recent landslip at Mappleton  demonstrates what an active coast Yorkshire has. The pictures from the archive ...

BGS image ID:  P200035 View of the Camborne mining district taken from the engine house of Dolcoath Mine.  Looking E.   In the distance...

Brora coal-pit, 0.8 km. west of Brora. Sutherland. Coal-pit and rock exposures (lower part of the Jurassic Corallian and Oxford Clay). ...

BGS Image ID: P000795 Oblique aerial view of Craigielaw Point, Aberlady. East Lothian. Looking north-west. Bedded sediments. Lower Lime...