The BGS has won a contract from Defra (SP1008) to determine the typical background concentrations of contaminants in soils...
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As part of the process to evaluate a potential potash deposit in North Yorkshire, the BGS has been contracted by <a href= ht ...
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Prospect, the union for over 34 000 engineering and science specialists in government and the private sector have organised the fi ...
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On 22 September 2011, CCS TLM Limited and The National Centre for CCS (NCCCS) launched an academy to offer training courses in ...
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Bell, Patrick. 2011 Opening a window on the world beneath us to aid teaching, research and analysis in geosciences. [Report]
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McMillan, A.A.; Merritt, J.W.; Auton, C.A.; Golledge, N.R.. 2011 The Quaternary geology of the Solway. Nottingham, UK, British G ...
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Ceramicola, S.; Stoker, M.; Praeg, D.; Shannon, P.M.; De Santis, L.; Hoult, R.; Hjelstuen, B.O.; Laberg, S.; Mathiesen, A.. 2011 ...
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Barker, Phillip A.; Hurrell, Elizabeth R.; Leng, Melanie J.; Wolff, Christian; Cocquyt, Christine; Sloane, Hilary J.; Verschuren ...
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Leveridge, B.E.. 2011 The Looe, south Devon and Tavy Basins : the Devonian rifted passive margin successions. Proceedings of the ...
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Leveridge, B.E.; Shail, R.K.. 2011 The Gramscatho Basin, south Cornwall, UK : Devonian active margin successions. Proceedings of ...
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Leveridge, B.E.; Shail, R.K.. 2011 The marine Devonian stratigraphy of Great Britain. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association ...
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Rose, James; Leveridge, Brian E.. 2011 The Marine Devonian of Great Britain. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 122 (4) ...
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Whittaker, Alfred; Leveridge, Brian E.. 2011 The North Devon Basin : a Devonian passive margin shelf succession. Proceedings of ...
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Rushton, Adrian; Stone, Phil. 2011 Two notable fossils finds in East Falkland : a 'starfish' and a large trilobite. Falkland Isl ...
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New content regarding the different kinds of groundwater pollution.
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We are investigating how the biogeochemical processes operating in floodplain environments...
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Richard Hocking and Brian O'Connell, engineers at Cornwall Council, filmed this large rock slide/fall near Hell's Mouth on the Cor ...
»» more »» 10-10-2011

Groundwater provides most of the domestic water supply in rural Africa and supports poverty reduction through irrigation...
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This conference, organised by the Mining Institute of Scotland and the Central Scotland Regional Group of the Geological Society, ...
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This one-day conference organised by the Association for Geographic Information Scotland and European Standards CEN/TC 287 Geograp ...
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BGS geologist <a href="/staff/profiles/0688.html" class="bodyLink">Ed Hough</a> is presenting a le ...
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<em>I Know Where I'm Going</em> Remote Access to World Heritage Sites from St Kilda to Uluru - a conference
This ...
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Depth 20 km; Lat/Long 38.628 North,43.486 West; Latest reports indicate that upwards of 1000 people have been killed and that m ...
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The British Geological Survey's Scottish headquarters at Murchison House, Edinburgh is holding its annual open day on Saturday 24 ...
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A summit of experts on coastal erosion is being planned by a Welsh council where a dramatic rockfall left 15 caravans teetering on ...
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...the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in collaboration with Cornwall Council and the British Geological Survey (BGS), found that t ...
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A British report which found that fracking was the 'highly probable' cause of two minor earthquakes in the Blackpool area during t ...
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There's no dispute that humans are leaving their mark on the planet, but geologists and other scientists are debating whether this ...
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It is 'highly probable' that shale gas test drilling triggered earth tremors in Lancashire, a study has found...The Department of ...
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When a massive tsunami slammed into Japan there were dire estimates about the number of people killed and damage done - eight mont ...
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It's a popular plot device in disaster movies. Cinema audiences sit munching their popcorn, while the villain plants a bomb (prefe ...
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RESIDENTS across Scarborough have given a cautious welcome to a huge potash find outside the town...York Potash chiefs have reveal ...
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DEVELOPERS have been urged to step up efforts to minimise the impact of a potash mine on a Yorkshire national park after one of th ...
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Beneath swathes of the UK lie billions of pounds worth of shale gas. And now we can get to it...analysis at two test sites and res ...
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ANDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency, has completed a rigorous two year analysis into GeoVisionary and h ...
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There really is gold in those hills - enough for a king's ransom. Scotgold Resources Ltd has just been given planning permission t ...
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