The Council for Geoscience has participated in just over a century of national and international geoscience mapping through its six regional offices situated in South Africa. All the provinces in South Africa have been mapped at a scale of 1:250 000. The focus of mapping is now to update the geological maps at a scale of 1:50 000 for more detail. Beginning in 1912 with the establishment of the Geological Survey, now known as the Council for Geoscience, regional mapping has been the core function and the cornerstone of the organisation's scientific focus area.
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