<p>The best I have been able to turn up is <a href="http://www.brgm.eu/content/digital-data-products" rel="nofollow">the paid BD-logs service</a>, which provides standardised lithology for borehole data. <a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/" rel="nofollow">Open Geospatial Consortium</a> data all appears to be listed on <a href="http://infoterre.brgm.fr/geoservices-ogc" rel="nofollow">the Geoservices page</a>, and does not appear to include a lithological database/lexicon. The <a href="http://www.brgm.eu/content/french-geological-reference-platform" rel="nofollow">French Geological Reference Platform</a> does not appear to include a standalone database. The BRGM's <a href="http://www.brgm.eu/content/list-websites" rel="nofollow">list of resources</a> also does not appear to provide pointers to any relevant information. Given that the FRGM is <a href="http://www.brgm.eu/content/alsace-inaugurates-pilot-french-geological-reference-platform-rgf" rel="nofollow">in active development</a>, it seems plausible that this is not in fact a dataset that currently exists.</p>

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2014-04-30T19:09:48.590Z
Hurrah! Sorry I couldn't find any actual resources that did what you wanted.
kaberett
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At least now I have certainty and something to read. And it has the benefit that it improves my French reading skills, because I have to read the booklets that come with the survey maps.
tobias47n9e
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kaberett
<p>Is there a page where I can look up rock unit definitions for France similar to:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/home.cfm">https://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/home.cfm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bgr.de/app/litholex/index.php">http://www.bgr.de/app/litholex/index.php</a></li>
</ul>

<p>I did some searching for this, but because of my poor French I couldn't find anything.</p>

<regional-geology><stratigraphy>
Is there a database of the geologic/stratigraphic units of France?
tobias47n9e
# Is there a database of the geologic/stratigraphic units of France?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-04-17)

Is there a page where I can look up rock unit definitions for France similar to:

* <https://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/home.cfm>
* <http://www.bgr.de/app/litholex/index.php>

I did some searching for this, but because of my poor French I couldn't find anything.

**Tags:** regional-geology, stratigraphy


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2014-04-30. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

The best I have been able to turn up is [the paid BD-logs service](http://www.brgm.eu/content/digital-data-products), which provides standardised lithology for borehole data. [Open Geospatial Consortium](http://www.opengeospatial.org/) data all appears to be listed on [the Geoservices page](http://infoterre.brgm.fr/geoservices-ogc), and does not appear to include a lithological database/lexicon. The [French Geological Reference Platform](http://www.brgm.eu/content/french-geological-reference-platform) does not appear to include a standalone database. The BRGM's [list of resources](http://www.brgm.eu/content/list-websites) also does not appear to provide pointers to any relevant information. Given that the FRGM is [in active development](http://www.brgm.eu/content/alsace-inaugurates-pilot-french-geological-reference-platform-rgf), it seems plausible that this is not in fact a dataset that currently exists.

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Hurrah! Sorry I couldn't find any actual resources that did what you wanted.  
> **username_0**: At least now I have certainty and something to read. And it has the benefit that it improves my French reading skills, because I have to read the booklets that come with the survey maps.  

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