CCS Conference
Carbon Capture and Storage: Bridging the transition from fossil fuels to renewables
Dublin Castle Conference Centre
11-12 March 2010
GSI, in conjunction with the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), GSNI, Shell Ireland and ESB, is co-ordinating a conference on carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Marc... | Climate through Time Poster
At different times in our history Ireland lay frozen under sheets of ice, thousands of feet thick, baked under hot desert suns and lounged in warm topical swamps! A stunning new poster map, detailing the diversity of climate experienced by Ireland and Britain over time, was launched on Friday 27th o... |
GSI publishes All Ireland bedrock map
The publishing of a 1:500,000 Bedrock Geological Map of Ireland in June 2006 marked an exciting milestone in the development of geological mapping in Ireland. The map is a comprehensive update of earlier such maps first published in 1928 and it displays a remarkable variety of bedrock across the isl... | Tsunami warning system for Ireland
Since the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, considerable international attention has been directed at establishing an effective international warning system for the world's oceans and seas. The International Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO has established an Intergovernmental Coordination Gr... |
100k GIS CD Edition
1:100,000 BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF IRELAND, SEAMLESS GIS EDITION
A new CD product of the entire 1:100,000 Bedrock geology of Ireland in ESRI GIS format was released in 2006. It contains seamless ESRI Shapefiles based on the printed 1:100,000 map series.
There are six layers in the dataset, the bedroc... | Temporary Exposures data
A new programme was started in 2005 to record information on temporary geological exposures. As many of these occur in roadcuts and at building sites around the country, we are appealing to the interested public, from the non-geologist to our professional colleagues for as much information as possi... |
1:50,000 digital (GIS) map series
Sheet 77, Wexford, is the first map in this series to be published. In a new departure for GSI Bedrock Geology maps this series shows all the point data sources, (outcrops, boreholes, palaeontological localities etc.) that have been used to compile the map.
The map is available in... | 1:100,000 scale maps and booklets.
THE 1:100,000 BEDROCK MAP SERIES
This map is replicated as a clickable image linking to details of each map in the series in our Publications Section - please click here.
The 1:100,000 Bedrock Map Series comprises 21 map sheets covering the whole of the land area of the Republic of Ireland a... |