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The geology of Great Britain is renowned for its diversity. As a result of its eventful geological history, Great Britain shows a rich variety of landscapes across the constituent countries of England, Wales and Scotland. Rocks of almost all geological ages are represented at outcrop, from the Archaean onwards.
The geology of Cambridgeshire in eastern England largely consists of ... British Geological Survey 1:50,000 scale geological map series sheets (England and Wales) 187 ...
The geological structure of Great Britain is complex, resulting as it does from a long and varied geological history spanning more than two billion years. This piece of the Earth's crust has experienced several episodes of mountain building or ' orogenies ', each of which has added further complexity to the picture.
Ordnance Survey mapping is usually classified as either "large-scale" (in other words, more detailed) or "small-scale". The Survey's large-scale mapping comprises 1:2,500 maps for urban areas and 1:10,000 more generally. (The latter superseded the 1:10,560 "six inches to the mile" scale in the 1950s.) These large scale maps are typically used ...
Map of Mercia Mudstone Group's outcrop (Triassic) in Wales and southwest England The Mercia Mudstone Group is an early Triassic lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata ) which is widespread in Britain, especially in the English Midlands —the name is derived from the ancient kingdom of Mercia which corresponds to that area.
Map is based on: British Geological Survey ; 2005 : Bedrock geology UK South, 1:625 000 scale (5 th ed.), HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Jackson, A.A. ; 2005 : Bedrock geology UK South, an explanation of the bedrock geology map of England and Wales - 1:625 000 fifth edition, British Geological Survey, Keyworth/Nottingham.
Column 4 indicates on which 1:50,000 or 1" scale geological map sheet published by the British Geological Survey (BGS) the fold is shown and named (either on map/s or cross-section/s or both). 'E&W' signifies the series of sheets published to cover England and Wales.
English: Geologic map of southeastern England, the English Channel and Pays-de-Calais. Based on: British Geological Survey; 2005: Bedrock geology UK South, 1:625 000 scale (5 th ed.), HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Service Géologique National; 1996: Carte géologique de la France au millionième, Éditions BRGM (6 th ed.), Paris