An Introduction to Geological Maps
GEOLOGICAL MAPS
Lecture notes (PowerPoint format): 2013_IntroGclMaps
Exercise 1 (pdf from Earth Learning Idea website): 2013_GclMaps_Ex1
Exercise 2 (pdf): 2013_GclMaps_mapping_intro
Exercise 3 (pdf): 2013_GclMaps_Ex3
Geological map resources:
The British Geological Survey has various Open Geoscience resources (including the Geology of Britain viewer, and the iGeology app). There is also the BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units.
Geological mapping of the Vale of York: Hall_etal2010_gcl_map_ValeYork (paper by Hall et al.)
ScottishGeology.com has a simplified geological map of Scotland.
OneGeology – Making Geological Map Data Accessible
US National Geologic Map Database
A History of Mapping:
A cannon at Hampton: William Roy and the start of the Ordnance Survey (Twickenham Museum)
William Smith (NHM biography)
William Smith – a man who changed the world (BGS biography)
The Map That Changed The World (by Simon Winchester)
John Phillips – Time Lord of York (my article for YorkMix)
Phillips’ 1855 geological map of Yorkshire
The Mapping of Assynt:
An Assynt mapping fieldtrip (courtesy of Leeds University)
A 3D reconstruction of the geology of Assynt (by the British Geological Survey)
A pilgrimage to Assynt (by Metageologist)
A biography of Charles Lapworth (Birmingham University)
How did Peach & Horne map Assynt? (Leeds University)
