Graphic: Tove Wendelin, SGU.
SGU provides data about soil depths, geochemistry, content of the sea bed sediments, variations in the gravity field and much more.
Graphic: Tove Wendelin, SGU.
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Read about Swedish mines and of SGU's National Drill Core collection.
Graphic: Tove Wendelin, SGU.
SGU publishes a large number of reports and maps in our various publications.
Väderöarna are a group of islands and islets in the archipelago outside of Fjällbacka.
Photo: Henrik Trygg/imagebank.sweden.se
An amendment to the Swedish Continental Shelf Ordinance will enter into force on 1 July 2022. The amendment means that, with a few exceptions, the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) will become the decision-making authority for applications relating to surveying of the continental shelf.
6 July 2022Sample with sediment core from Utsjön.
Photo: Sara Josefsson/Olof Larsson, SGU
SGU has since 2003 investigated the levels of metals and organic contaminants in sediments on the Swedish sea floor, both in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. The results, including the latest survey in 2020/2021, are now published in a new report. Among the results are unexpectedly high levels of fluorinated compounds, so called PFASs, in the Gulf of Bothnia.
29 June 2022