LG DE Superficial Geology - OneGeology Europe (WFS)

As the department of the Confederation responsible for earth sciences, the Swiss Geological Survey is principally concerned with the following tasks: organising national geological, geotechnical and geophysical surveys, gathering the necessary data, processing and compiling these data in the form of geological maps, and publishing reports, recommendations and guidelines in the fields to which geology is applied (engineering geology and environmental geology).The presented layers (tectonic lineaments and geological units) give a broad overview of the composition and major features of the underlying structure of Switzerland. (Revision: SVN-53)