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Digimap is a web mapping and online data delivery service developed by the EDINA national data centre for UK academia. It offers a range of on-line mapping and data download facilities which provide maps and spatial data from Ordnance Survey, British Geological Survey, Landmark Information Group and OceanWise Ltd Ltd., (marine mapping data and charts from the UK Hydrographic Office ...
"Drift" geology is often more important than "solid" geology when considering building works, drainage, siting water boreholes, sand and gravel resources and soil fertility. Although "drift" strictly refers to glacial and fluvio-glacial deposits, the term on geological maps has traditionally included other materials including alluvium, river ...
The British Geological Survey was founded in 1835 as the Ordnance Geological Survey ... the free to download app allows users to access maps direct to their devices ...
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.
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
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.
The geology of England is mainly sedimentary. The youngest rocks are in the south east around London , progressing in age in a north westerly direction. [ 1 ] The Tees–Exe line marks the division between younger, softer and low-lying rocks in the south east and the generally older and harder rocks of the north and west which give rise to ...