SGS is the national geologic survey of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Having been established in 1999, we are among the youngest national surveys in the world, although we have been fortunate to have been built from other governmental agencies that have studied the geology of the Kingdom since the 1960s.
Our headquarters are in Jeddah, which is located on the Red Sea and is the second largest city in the country.
Jeddah is also adjacent to the western margin of the Neoproterozoic Arabian Shield, and studies of that geologic region
form one of the primary foci of the Saudi Geologic Survey.
A branch office maintained in Riyadh, the capital of the country, houses facilities for making and printing topographic maps.
Sand deposits are widespread in the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia, particularly in the Arabian Platform, where they cover
almost one-third of the ....
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Zamzam Studies and Research
Unlike other geologic surveys worldwide, the
Saudi Geological Survey faces a number of unique responsibilities that
arise from its being the major national earth science ....
