About the Scottish Geology Trust Geosites Project

Scotland has over 1000 sites that are designated as important for geology and geomorphology at a national or local level. The Scottish Geology Trust’s Geosites project aims to build a map and database for all of these sites, to encourage greater awareness and conservation. You can find out more about the project here. Geosites project volunteers are adding information and photographs — get involved.

So far, volunteers have added 2351 photographs to the database, covering 429 geosites. 451 geosites have been annotated with additional information.

Using the map

Select a GCR category of interest to view site locations and zoom in to see site boundaries. Click on a site for more information.

Sources of data

This website uses and presents data from a variety of sources:

• Information relating to GCR sites is derived from the GCR site database developed by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee
• Site boundary geometries of GCR sites in Scotland are provided by the NatureScot SiteLink database
• Site boundary geometries of Local Geodiversity Sites are provided with the permission of the relevant local authorities:
• The City of Edinburgh Council, under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Copyright City of Edinburgh Council, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2024)
• Geometries of sites in Midlothian and the Scottish Borders have been provided by geoconservation volunteers.
• Geometries of sites in West Lothian, East Lothian, Inverclyde, Aberdeenshire, East Dumbartonshire, Falkirk, Fife, North Ayrshire, Orkney and Perth and Kinross provided via the Spatial Hub under the Open Government Licence v3.0. (Scottish local authority data from the Spatial Hub).
• Point locations of candidate sites in Glasgow City via BGS report CR/13/022.
• The basic site information provided by data sources above is enhanced by volunteers, who can update and edit the metadata, and add photographs. By contributing to this site, you declare that you have permission to use the content you submit and agree to licence that content under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence.
• Base topographic mapping is provided by the Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright and database rights 2024
• Geological overlay data are provided by the British Geological Survey. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2024

See the code

The source code is hosted at https://codeberg.org/dburgess/Geosites. Comments and issues are very welcome.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful for funding and support for the pilot phase of this project from the following organisations:

• The Curry Fund of the Geologists' Association
• Geological Society of Glasgow
• Edinburgh Geological Society
• The Quaternary Research Association