Resources

There are a wealth of geological resources available online (including those which are specific to the Uni of Liverpool); we have compiled as many of them as we can here. 

Do you know about any resources we don't list here? Let us know!

GeoHub Liverpool
geohubliverpool.org.uk/

A huge hub of geosciences resources for teachers and students run by a number of academics at the uni, containing resources on: environment and energy; field skills; geohazards; geological time; geophysics; lab techniques; plate tectonics; rocks, minerals and fossils, and; structural geology.

Uni of Liverpool software downloads
liverpool.ac.uk/it/software/software-downloads/

Allows you to install software including MatLab, Minitab, ArcGIS and EndNote (QGIS and Zotero are free and just as good alternatives to ArcGIS and EndNote if you don't use Windows!). 

Mapping resources

QGIS training manual
docs.qgis.org/3.34/en/docs/training_manual/

If you need a refresher on some of the basic aspects of QGIS, the QGIS training manual is the best place to go.

BGS Geology Viewer (beta)
geologyviewer.bgs.ac.uk/

Useful reference interactive geology map of the UK. 

BGS GeoIndex (onshore)
bgs.ac.uk/map-viewers/geoindex-onshore/

Far more detailed resource from the BGS, which alongside geology allows you to view borehole data, earthquakes data, faults and interactive 3D models.

BGS map data downloads
bgs.ac.uk/geological-data/opengeoscience/map-data-downloads/

BGS has a large range of datasets relevant to UK geology you can download and use in GIS projects.

Extract Open Street Map data
extract.bbbike.org/

bbbike.org has a tool which allows you to extract OSM data as a shapefile. This is useful if you're making a GIS project and need to add roads, rivers, buildings etc.

Revision

Catalogue of Life
catalogueoflife.org/

Can't remember the classes of brachiopod or what an agnostid is? Catalogue of Life is the website for you.

Palaeobiology Database
paleobiodb.org/

Public database of palaeontological information, free to use by anyone.

Mindat
mindat.org/

This is the resource on minerals, including their mineralogy, where they're found and where they're mined. They log over 6,000 species of minerals here in a really intuitive and easy-to-use way.

Alex Strekeisen thin sections
www.alexstrekeisen.it/english/

Very high quality range of thin section images (with significant and very useful info about them) on a website run by an academic at the University of Pisa. 

Virtual Microscope
virtualmicroscope.org/

A massive collection of interactive virtual thin sections which you can explore in your own time. Particularly helpful if you want to revise outside of the lab.

Visible Geology
visiblegeology.com/

Contains a geology explorer tool, a stereonet tool and a tool allowing you to visualise apparent dip.

V3Geo
v3geo.com/

Repository of 3D models of geology outcrops from across the world, which you can explore in your own time.

GeoPython
geo-python-site.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Online course allowing you to teach yourself the fundamentals of programming and scientific data analysis with Python in your own time, run by the University of Helsinki.

SedLog
sedlog.rhul.ac.uk/

Free-to-use software for creating graphic sedimentary logs, run by Royal Holloway University of London.