BGS offshore small-scale digital mapping Web service

This Web service provides layers containing offshore digital mapping datasets compiled by the British Geological Survey which have coverage across the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), mostly at scales smaller than 1:250 000. It provides view and download services for the following datasets: - BGS Offshore Bedrock 250k - BGS Seabed Sediments 250k (including the Marine Hard Substrate Dataset) - BGS Offshore Quaternary 250k - 1:1 000 000 scale geological factor map: bedrock summary lithology - 1:1 000 000 scale geological factor map: Quaternary deposit summary lithology - 1:1 000 000 scale geological factor map: Quaternary deposit thickness - BGS Predictive Seabed Sediments (UK) For more information, contact BGS Marine Enquiries ( offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk).

Identification info

Date (Creation): 2025

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608574

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Data
Marine geology
Marine surveys
Sea floor
Geological data
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Isopach maps
Bed rock
Offshore drilling
Geology
Quaternary
Sea floor sediments

dataCentre

UK Location (INSPIRE)

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata, Part D 4, Classification of Spatial Data Services

200-Geographic model/information management service

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations

Other constraints: The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Service Type: view

Geographic identifier: UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Begin date: 1969

Coupling Type: Tight

Contains Operations

No information provided.

Operates On

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

Name	Version

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.bgs.ac.uk/	BGS Homepage

Hierarchy level: Service

Other: service

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services