ESS products and services

• ESS data products

Geoscience Data Repository

GSC Laboratories

• Energy
  • Basin analysis and petroleum geology (Atlantic)
  • Gas hydrates

• Environment
  • MITE - Minerals in the Environment
  • Climate change
  • Permafrost

• Geochemistry
  • National geochemical reconnaissance
  • Environmental geochemistry and geochemical hazards
  • Geochemistry (GSC Calgary)

• Geochronology
  • Geochronology Laboratory
  • Canadian Geochronology Knowledgebase
  • Radiocarbon dating

• Geohazards
  • Canadian earthquakes
    • Recent earthquakes
    • Earthquake hazard
  • Volcanoes of Canada
  • Geomagnetic hazards
  • Georgia Basin geohazards initiative
  • Environmental geochemistry and geochemical hazards
  • Landslides

• Geology
  • Introduction to the geology of the Canadian cordillera
  • Geodynamics program
  • Paleontology (fossils)
  • Paleontology
  • Canadian landscapes

  • National maps and digital data
    • (Bedrock) Geological Map of Canada CD-ROM (Map D18860A)
    • Surficial Materials of Canada (Map 1880A)
    • Tectono-Metamorphic Map of the Canadian Shield

  • Urban geology:
    • Urban geology
    • Geoscape Canada (Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec ...)
    • National capital area (Ottawa, Ontario)
    • Oak Ridges moraine (Ontario)
    • Vancouver:
      • GeoMap Vancouver
      • Vancouver's landscape
      • Vancouver rocks

  • Surficial geology

• Geophysics
  • Borehole geophysics and petrophysics
  • National gamma-ray spectrometry (NATGAM)
  • Gravity
  • Aeromagnetic surveys
  • Geophysical applications
  • Geomagnetism

• Geoscience integration
  • EXTECH
    • EXTECH II - Bathurst mining camp
    • EXTECH III - Yellowknife
    • EXTECH IV - Athabasca uranium
  • Spatial data analysis
  • Central Baffin Island 4-D Project

• Glaciology

• Hydrogeology
  • Oak Ridges moraine and hydrogeology project

• International projects
  • Canada-Brazil cooperation
  • Multinational Andean Project (MAP)

• Marine geoscience
  • GSC Marine geoscience (Pacific)
  • Sponge reef project
  • ED - National marine database
  • Basin analysis and petroleum geology (Atlantic)

• Mineral deposits
  • World minerals geoscience database project
  • Diamonds
  • Consolidation and Synthesis of Mineral Deposits Knowledge

• Seismology
  • Earthquakes Canada
  • Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Project
  • Seismology and Electromagnetism

• Software

• Collections

  In addition to the above data resources, the Geological Survey of Canada has many important archival and research Collections, including maps, photographs, books, cores, fossils, rocks, minerals and meteorites, some of which are accessible by the general public.

• Partnerships

• Earth Sciences Sector Priorities:
  • 2006 -
  • 2002-2006

• For you - a collection of links to various sites within the Earth Sciences Sector.