Land use

This is a list of terms that can be used in the field Land use.

• Allotment
• Arable
• Arable and Pasture
• Arable and Woodland
• Archaeological Excavation
• Built over
• Churchyard
• Coastland – above High Water
• Coastland – Inter Tidal
• Garden
• Grassland – Pasture
• Grassland – Undifferentiated
• Heathland
• Lawn
• Mixed Rural
• Mixed Urban
• Moorland
• Orchard
• Park
• Playing Field
• Road
• Waste Ground
• Woodland

Solid geology

This is a list of terms that can be used in the field Solid Geology. It was compiled from the EH GSdb and is not a complete list of all the classifications of the BGS.

• Ampthill and Kimmeridge Clay
• Ashgill
• Ashgill and Caradoc undifferentiated
• Barton, Bracklesham & Bagshot Beds
• Basal Conglomerate
• Basalt, Dolerite, Camptonite and Allied Types
• Bovey Formation, St Agnes Sands, etc.
• Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beds
• Cambrian
• Caradoc
• Carboniferous/Devonian Transition Group
• Chalk (including Red Chalk)
• Corallian
• Coralline Beds
• Cornbrash
• Devonian Andesitic and Basaltic Lavas and Tuffs, undiff.
• Devonian undifferentiated
• Gabbro and allied types
• Gneiss, Mica Schist
• Granite, Syenite, Granophyre & allied types
• Great Oolite
• Hamstead Beds and Bembridge Marls
• Hastings Beds
• Inferior Oolite
• Kimmeridge Clay
• Lenham Beds
• Llandeilo
• Llandovery
• Llanvirn & Arenig
• London Clay
• Lower Cambrian
• Lower Cretaceous undifferentiated
• Lower Devonian
• Lower Greensand
• Lower Lias
• Lower Old Red Sandstone (including Downtonian)
• Lower Westphalian (A+B)
• Ludlow
• Magnesian Limestone
• Middle Cambrian
• Middle Devonian (England)
• Middle Lias
• Middle/upper Devonian undifferentiated
• Namurian (“Millstone Grit series”)
• Norwich Crag, Red Crag & Chillesford Clay
• Oldhaven, Blackheath, Woolwich& Reading & Thanet Beds
• Oolite undifferentiated
• Oxford Clay and Kellaways Beds
• Permian & Triassic Sandstones undifferentiated
• Permian Basal Breccias, Sandstones and Mudstones
• Permian Mudstones
• Portland Beds
• Precambrian
• Purbeck Beds
• Rhyolite, Trachyte, Felsite, Elvans, and allied types
• St Erth Beds (Cornwall)
• Torridonian Sandstone and Grit
• Tournaisian & Visean (“Carboniferous Limestone series”)
• Triassic Mudstones
• Ultrabasic rock
• Undifferentiated Gneiss of the Lewisian complex
• Upper Cambrian, including Tremadoc
• Upper Carboniferous undifferentiated
• Upper Devonian & Upper Old Red Sandstone
• Upper Greensand and Gault
• Upper Lias
• Upper Westphalian (C+D)
• Weald Clay
• Wenlock
• Westphalian
• Westphalian & Stephanian, undivided of “Barren Red”

Drift geology

This is a list of terms that can be used for the field Drift Geology.

• Alluvium
• Blown Sand
• Boulder Clay and Morainic Drift
• Brickearth, Mainly Loess
• Clay with Flints
• Colluvium
• Crag
• Glacial Sand and Gravel
• Lacustrine Clays, Silts and Sands
• Peat
• Raised Beach and Marine Deposits
• River Terrace Deposits
• Sand and Gravel of Uncertain Age or Origin