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rikj
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13 years ago

For those who haven't seen it before, this is another informative site. It's a map allowing you to access scans of borehole logs held at the British Geological Society (BGS). Some scans are not available to view, presumably for commercial reasons.

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/boreholescans/

The usefulness probably varies depending where in the UK you are, here in the Yorkshire coalfields it makes interesting reading. Especially intriguing is when boreholes break into previously unknown old workings.

Seems to use a similar, if not the same engine as the CA map.

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inbye
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13 years ago

Thanks Rik, very interesting...I have a BGS map showing boreholes but they are clearly only the major ones. Didn't realise there were so many...good link :thumbup:

Regards, John...

Huddersfield, best value for money in the country, spend a day there & it'll feel like a week........

Graigfawr
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13 years ago

Within the BGS website is a map tool that enables you to display the locations and reference numbers of all boreholes the BGS hold logs for. It includes enormous numbers of construction industry shallow boreholes, most of which do not penetrate below rockhead. The numbers of boreholes that do penetrate solid measures to a considerable depth is very considerable and certainly far greater than appear of BGS 1:10,560 maps and in 1":1mile / 1:50,000 sheet memoirs.