9df8df53-2a24-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 English nonGeographicDataset non geographic dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-16 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13603185 1:1.5M scale 'Geology Through Climate Change' Poster Map Covering UK Mainland, Northern Ireland and Eire. 2008 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13603185 1:1.5M scale 'Geology Through Climate Change' poster map covering UK mainland, Northern Ireland and Eire. This poster map shows the rocks of Britain and Ireland in a new way, grouped and coloured according to the environment under which they were formed. Photographs illustrate modern-day environments, alongside images of the typical rock types which are formed in them. The ages of the rocks are shown in a timeline, which also shows global temperatures and sea levels changing through time. The changing positions of Britain and Ireland as they drifted northwards through geological time are illustrated too. It was jointly produced by the BGS, the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland and the Geological Survey of Ireland. It has been endorsed by a range of teaching organisations including WJEC (previously the Welsh Joint Education Committee), OCR (Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations), The Association of Teaching Organisations of Ireland and the Earth Science Teachers Association. Although primarily intended as a teaching resource, the poster map will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the imprint geological time has left in the rocks of our islands. This poster map is free, all you pay is the postage and packing. Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact asNeeded https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/9df8df53-2a24-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Climate change Geology Geological mapping BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE) dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions copyright The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. 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Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely available without any use constraints - inclusion of any third party data / information will affect the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made. 1500000 English geoscientificInformation 2008 Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geology/maps-and-resources/climate-change-through-time/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Climate change through time The Climate through time poster and online map illustrate the links between our planet’s changing climate and the different rocks that formed as environmental conditions varied through geological time. download nonGeographicDataset non geographic dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false 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 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false The map was produced from two datasets. Processing: 1.Source data reclassified into 1 of 9 environmental categories (from ancient mountains to ice age) and 1 of 16 age categories based (from Archaean to Quaternary based on geological time Periods) and contiguous like-polygons merged. Data then automatically generalised using FME software to remove small polygons and create smoothed linework.2. Data further simplified cartographically by recolouring small polygons by hand to remove or merge unwanted polygons.3. New dataset used to create map face for printing hard copy map. Other comment, as the printed map was required extremely urgently and as data not intended for use in a GIS this second stage generalisation was only carried out at a cosmetic level to give the correct appearance when printed; the attributes behind every revised polygon were not corrected, just the colour.