The Geological Sciences Division of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) holds a variety of geological data collected over the last 60 years. These are predominately from the Antarctic Peninsula region and Scotia Arc, although there is also important material from areas such as the Ellsworth Mountains, Marie Byrd Land and the Transantarctic Mountains. We currently have information relating to 150,000 field samples often with associated analysis data such as geochemistry. Additionally we hold a variety of data for nearly 500 marine cores. The metadata and data are stored within a number of Oracle 10g database tables and for some datasets such as the type and figured fossil collection there is external access through a web interface.

This presentation will give an overview of the geological data held at BAS and show how the data is organised, searched and visualized and how they are being used for current research projects.