The International Geological Map of Europe and the Mediteranean Regions 1 : 1 500 000 ("Carte Géologique Internationale de l'Europe et des Régions Méditerranéennes 1 : 1 500 000") shows the geology of the European continent from the Ural mountains in the east up to Island in the west and the whole mediteranean region in the south. The geology is differenciated in stratigraphy, igneous and metamorphic rocks. In addition there are two legend sheets and a title sheet. The language of the series is French.

BGR conducted an airborne survey in the region of Finsterwalde (Brandeburg) as part of the BGR project D-AERO-Finsterwalde. This project is a pilot study to survey the "Finsterwalder Restlochkette" with the BGR airborne geophysical standard measuring system. The former lignite mining area is located between Finsterwalde and Lauchhammer in Lower Lusatia about 50 km southwest of Cottbus. The size of the area is about 260 km². The area was surveyed with 10 flights totalling to 1742 line-km (40,153 survey points). The nominal separation of the 117 NW-SE lines and 59 NE-SW tie lines was 250 m and 625 m, respectively. The maps display the total count, the (equivalent) content of potassium, uranium and thorium as well as the exposure rate at ground.

Based on data from geological 3D models of the federal states Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia, thicknesses of Quaternary and Tertiary sediments were determined. Based on these thickness data, the geological substrate classes "R" (rock), "T" (shallow sediment basins), and "S" (deep sediment basins) were designated according to DIN (National Annex Eurocode 8 - DIN EN 1998-1/Na2023-11: Nationally determined parameters - Eurocode 8: Design of structures for earthquake resistance - Part 1: General rules, seismic actions and rules for buildings). The subsoil, including rocks to a depth of 30 m, was not considered in the designation. The geological substrate classes were represented on a grid with a cell size of 1 km x 1 km. Compared to the previous designation of geological substrate classes, a significantly higher spatial resolution was achieved. For further information on the development of this map, see the final report included.

The Lithofacial Map of the Quaternary 1 : 50,000 (LKQ 50) is a map series of the GDR covering nearly the whole former state territory besides the South of Saxony and Thuringia. The series consists of 123 map sheets, each of which encompassing several horizon maps mostly complemented by about five cross sections. Specifications concerning map content and structure provides Cepek (1999). The data of the LKQ 50 map sheet 1868 Eberswalde provided here were digitised in frame of the Geo3D-Oder project of the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR). The data include elements of the eight horizon maps 1868-2, 1868-3, 1868-4, 1868-5 1868-6, 1868-7, 1868-8, and 1868-9. The topics of these maps are defined in a general legend (version 3). Furthermore, the legends of the single horizon maps provide a stratigraphic and genetic classification of the depicted strata. For each horizon map the digitised elements comprise several polygon shapefiles of the single layers, a polyline shapefile of isohypses related to layer bases, a point shapefile of lithological profiles and a polygon shapefile of additional information concerning areas of heavy strata deformation and insufficient investigation. Non-numeric contents of the attribute tables are encoded by numbers and are translated in full text by means of key tables. The key table Normalprofil allows the stratigraphic and genetic classification of horizons displayed in horizon maps by code numbers of the column N_ID. Detailed descriptions concerning the data structure are provided in the attachments. Reference: Cepek, A. G. (1999): Die Lithofazieskarte Quartär 1 : 50.000 (LKQ 50) – Eine Erläuterung des Kartenkonzepts mit Hinweisen zum Gebrauch. - Brandenburgisch. Geowiss. Beitr. 6, 2: 3-38, 3 Abb., 2 Tab.; Kleinmachnow

Four marine geophysical and marine geological expeditions were carried out within the PANORAMA project. 2013: Panorama1 with research vessel RV OGS Explora, northern Barents Sea and Eurasian Basin; 2015: Panorama2 with RV OGS Explora, northern Barents Sea, Olga Basin; 2017 SEGMENT with RV Maria S. Merian, northeastern continental margin Greenland; 2018 GREENMATE with RV Polarstern, northeastern and northern continental margin Greenland. Geophysical data include 2D reflection seismic data and refraction seismic data (with OBS and sonar buoy, respectively. In addition, hydroacoustic data were recorded with the onboard multibeam echosounders and sediment echosounders, respectively. Furthermore, gravimetric and magnetic data were recorded. Geological and geochemical data were acquired using gravity corer and multi-corer. In the framework of the project Greenmate (2018) specimens were collected from the shore of NE Greenland using helicopters. Results are available to date in the following publications: Berglar Kai, Franke Dieter, Lutz Rüdiger, Schreckenberger Bernd, Damm Volkmar; Initial Opening of the Eurasian Basin, Arctic Ocean; Frontiers in Earth Science; 2016; DOI=10.3389/feart.2016.00091 Rüdiger Lutz, Dieter Franke, Kai Berglar, Ingo Heyde, Bernd Schreckenberger, Peter Klitzke, Wolfram H. Geissler; Evidence for mantle exhumation since the early evolution of the slow-spreading Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean; Journal of Geodynamics; 2018; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2018.01.014 Philipp Weniger, Martin Blumenberg, Kai Berglar, Axel Ehrhardt, Peter Klitzke, Martin Krüger, Rüdiger Lutz; Origin of near-surface hydrocarbon gases bound in northern Barents Sea sediments; Marine and Petroleum Geology; 2019 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.12.036 P. Klitzke, D. Franke, A. Ehrhardt, R. Lutz, L. Reinhardt, I. Heyde, J.I. Faleide; The paleozoic evolution of the Olga Basin region, northern Barents Sea – a link to the timanian orogeny; G-cubed, 20 (2) (2019); 10.1029/2018GC007814 Rüdiger Lutz, Peter Klitzke, Philipp Weniger, Martin Blumenberg, Dieter Franke, Lutz Reinhardt, Axel Ehrhardt, Kai Berglar; Basin and petroleum systems modelling in the northern Norwegian Barents Sea; Marine and Petroleum Geology; 2021; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105128. Franke, D., Klitzke, P., Barckhausen, U., Berglar, K., Berndt, C., Damm, V., Dannowski, A., Ehrhardt, A., Engels, M., Funck, T., Geissler, W., Schnabel, M., Thorwart, M. & Trinhammer, P. (2019): Polyphase Magmatism During the Formation of the Northern East Greenland Continental Margin. - Tectonics, 38, 8: 2961–2982, DOI: 10.1029/2019tc005552.

The Lithofacial Map of the Quaternary 1 : 50,000 (LKQ 50) is a map series of the GDR covering nearly the whole former state territory besides the South of Saxony and Thuringia. The series consists of 123 map sheets, each of which encompassing several horizon maps mostly complemented by about five cross sections. Specifications concerning map content and structure provides Cepek (1999). The data of the LKQ 50 map sheet 1969 Wriezen provided here were digitised in frame of the Geo3D-Oder project of the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR). The data include elements of the four horizon maps 1969-2, 1969-3, 1969-4 and 1969-56 and of the five cross sections Schnitt 1 to Schnitt5. The topics of these maps and cross sections are defined in a general legend (version 3). Furthermore, the legends of the single horizon maps provide a stratigraphic and genetic classification of the depicted strata. For each horizon map the digitised elements comprise several polygon shapefiles of the single layers, a polyline shapefile of isohypses related to layer bases, a point shapefile of lithological profiles and a polygon shapefile of additional information concerning areas of heavy strata deformation and insufficient investigation. The data of each cross section includes a polygon shapefile of the horizon section areas, a polygon shapefile of the section areas concerning regions with heavy layer deformation or insufficient investigation and a shapefile showing the transect line to locate the cross section. Non-numeric contents of the attribute tables are encoded by numbers and are translated in full text by means of key tables. The key table Normalprofil allows the stratigraphic and genetic classification of horizons displayed in horizon maps by code numbers of the column N_ID. Detailed descriptions concerning the data structure are provided in the attachments. Reference: Cepek, A. G. (1999): Die Lithofazieskarte Quartär 1 : 50.000 (LKQ 50) – Eine Erläuterung des Kartenkonzepts mit Hinweisen zum Gebrauch. - Brandenburgisch. Geowiss. Beitr. 6, 2: 3-38, 3 Abb., 2 Tab.; Kleinmachnow

BGR conducted within the EU Interreg-IIIb project "Ancient groundwater reservoirs in buried valleys" (BurVal) an airborne survey in the region of the Ellerbeker Rinne in cooperation with the State Geological Surveys of Schleswig-Holstein (LANU) and Hamburg (BSU). The survey area Ellerbeker Rinne (2005/06) is located to the northwest of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg and is about bounded by the motorway A23 to the west and by Bad Bramstedt to the northeast. The size of the area is about 280 km². The area was surveyed with 7, but only 4 were evaluated totalling to 616 line-km (156,374 survey points). The nominal separation of the 70 (of 99) ENE-WSW lines and 6 NNW-SSE tie lines was 400/600 m and 2000 m, respectively. The map displays the anomalies of the magnetic field of the earth.

BGR conducted within the project „Airborne geophysical surveys for mapping the shallow subsurface in Germany “ (D-AERO) airborne surveys at the German North Sea coast. The survey area Varel (2014) is bounded by the Cities of Wilhelmshaven and Brake to the north and east, by Jaderberg, Mittelort and Sande to the south and west. The size of the area is about 319 km². The area was surveyed with 8 flights totalling to 1245 line-km (32,311 survey points). The nominal separation of the 63 WNW-ESE lines and 8 SSE-NNW tie lines was 250 m and 2000 m, respectively. The maps display the total count, the (equivalent) content of potassium, uranium and thorium as well as the exposure rate at ground.