KEY POINTS• 80,000 Sample Point Data Locations

• geochemical, geological, geotechnical and sediment data including PDF files of legacy scanned data sheets and borehole logs.

• The majority of these released under an Open Government Licence (OGL)

• OGL – Freely useable data, with appropriate acknowledgement of data originator

• Go to the BGS ‘Offshore Geoindex’ to view, select and download the data you are interested in• View and download PDF’s of scans of legacy information such as Boreholes• View and query data points on screen• Create areas of interest and download selected layer data via ‘Clip / Zip / Ship’

service – creates a zipped local Geodatabase package for your own use in GIS.

• Accompanying Web Map Service (WMS) can be imported into your Desktop GIS to view these data in context against your own data

• Central BGS Marine (Offshore) data enquiries email: offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk

• Details in this press release: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/docs/MarineGeologicalData_FINAL.pdf

View the legacy information

Query the data, select, download the parameters you are interested in