The world’s geologists have dug out their maps and are sticking them together to produce the first truly global resource of the world’s rocks. The OneGeology project pools existing data about what lies under our feet and has made it available on the web.
Led by the British Geological Survey (BGS), the project involved geologists from 80 nations. Between 60% and 70% of the Earth’s surface is now available down to the scale of 1:1,000,000.
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