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BGS Petrological Collection Database (Britrocks)

The Britrocks database provides an index to the BGS mineralogical & petrological collection. The computer database covers samples in the UK onshore mapping collection together with world wide reference minerals and the Museum Reserve collection. Currently circa 200k out of circa 300k samples are recorded in the computer database. A collection audit is ongoing, so availability of any particular sample is not guaranteed. The first England and Wales collection sample is from circa 1877, Threshthwaite Comb, Cumbria (collected by the Reverend Clifton Ward). The addition of new samples, transfer of records from registers and updates of existing records is ongoing on a regular basis. Internet access to the database is provided on the BGS web site.

Simple

Alternate title

Britrocks

Date (Creation)
1986
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480097
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
Maintenance and update frequency
Irregular

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • UK Location (INSPIRE)

  • Petrology

dataCentre
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Access via the GeoIndex on the BGS web site, www.bgs.ac.uk. Subject to usual BGS terms and conditions. Copyright to NERC.
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

Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section ( ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Spatial representation type
Text, table
Denominator
10000
Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
WORLD [id=100000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

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Begin date
1877
Supplemental Information

Spatial precision varies from 1m to 1 km where estimated by reference to BGS gazetteer. In the database incomplete validation and data standards have allowed records of variable completeness, quality and accuracy to be present.

Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
Distribution format
Name Version

Hardcopy - Paper

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/technologies/databases/bgs-rock-collections/

BRITROCKS: mineralogy and petrology collections database - Homepage

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/britrocks/britrocks.cfc?method=searchBritrocks

BGS rock collections - Search form

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex/home.html?theme=collections

BGS GeoIndex Collections

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other

dataset

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

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass
No
Statement

Data as provided by BGS sample collectors, mostly geological mappers, then copied into paper registers by petrographers and later re-copied into electronic database.

Metadata

File identifier
9df8df51-6320-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-06-24
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480097

 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

UK Location (INSPIRE)


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