Research News and Awards
Latest reports indicate that at least 85 people have been killed and another 150 injured in Samoa and American Samoa by
a tsunami ...
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Dr Mike Stephenson, Head of Energy at BGS, gave a talk on <em>The North Sea: a store for Europe's future CO2 emissions</e ...
»» more »» 08-09-2009
On 2 Sept 1859 magnetometers at Greenwich and Kew started to record wild deviations in compass direction. These variations persist ...
»» more »» 02-09-2009
Straddling two counties, one in Northern Ireland and one in the Irish Republic, Marble Arch Caves is the world's only transinterna ...
»» more »» 19-08-2009
Recent publications
Camps, Ameena; Long, David; Rochelle, Christopher; Lovell, Mike A. 2009 Mapping hydrate stability zones offshore Scotland. In: L ...
»» more »» 01-10-2009
Tye, A.M.; Kemp, S.J.; Poulton, P.R.. 2009 Responses of soil clay mineralogy in the Rothamsted Classical Experiments in relation ...
»» more »» 30-09-2009
Evans, Jane; Bullman, Rhys. 2009 87Sr/86Sr isotope fingerprinting of Scottish and Icelandic migratory shorebirds. Applied Geoche ...
»» more »» 28-09-2009
Kerry, R.; Rawlins, B.G.; Oliver, M.A.; Lacinska, A.M.. 2009 Problems with determining the particle size distribution of chalk s ...
»» more »» 18-09-2009
Orton, T.G.; Rawlins, B.G.; Lark, R.M.. 2009 Using measurements close to a detection limit in a geostatistical case study to pre ...
»» more »» 18-09-2009
Lamb, Angela L.; Gonzalez, Silvia; Huddart, David; Metcalfe, Sarah E.; Vane, Christopher H.; Pike, Alistair W.G.. 2009 Tepexpan ...
»» more »» 17-09-2009
Lloyd, Nicholas; Mosselmans, J.F.W.; Parrish, Randall R; Chenery, Simon; Hainsworth, S.V.; Kemp, Simon. 2009 The morphologies an ...
»» more »» 17-09-2009
Bearcock, J.; Smedley, P.L.. 2009 Baseline groundwater chemistry : the Magnesian Limestone of County Durham and North Yorkshire. ...
»» more »» 17-09-2009
Merriman, R.J.; Breward, N.; Stone, P.; Green, K.; Kemp, S.. 2009 Element mobility and low-grade metamorphism of mudrocks in Bri ...
»» more »» 17-09-2009
Stone, P.. 2009 Geological notes to accompany 1:10k sheets SD58SE (Scout Hill) and SD68SW (Barbon) : part of 1:50,000 Sheet 49 ( ...
»» more »» 17-09-2009
What's new on the website
The aim of the Investigation & Monitoring of Aggregate Deposits Using Geo-Electrical Resistivity Imaging (IMAGER) project is t ...
»» more »» 01-10-2009
A teachers' guide to activities for secondary students (11-18) for use with Climate through time poster...
»» more »» 24-09-2009
Report summarises the SFC lithostratigraphical scheme for onshore Carboniferous successions of southern Great Britain...
»» more »» 23-09-2009
From the BGS Landslide Response Team. Located 8 km west of Arrochar on the ...
»» more »» 16-09-2009
BGS Events diary
Building a Future for Stone at the Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. Addressing current issues of building and roofing stone in the UK, ...
»» more »» 01-10-2009
OEstimating storage capacities, trapping mechanisms, understanding and assessing risks, long-term CO2 behaviour, case studies, and monitoring programs...
»» more »» 02-10-2009
The school will cover geological and engineering aspects of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and is aimed at PhD students with an interest in CCS...
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»» more »» 12-10-2009
Demonstrating our full 3D portfolio including Geovisionary & GSI3D. ...
»» more »» 18-10-2009
BGS News Releases
Historic buildings in Britain are increasingly at risk from damage due to the effects of climate change and a lack of suitable bui ...
»» more »» 28-09-2009
The British Geological Survey's Edinburgh Headquarters, Murchison House, is opening its doors to the public from 10.00 to 17.00 on ...
»» more »» 24-09-2009
Teams of young scientists and engineers will compete in an environmental science challenge (Energy Resources and Land Use Conflict ...
»» more »» 06-07-2009
Minerals are essential materials needed to build our homes, schools, hospitals and work places; and the minerals industry is an im ...
»» more »» 01-07-2009
BGS in the media
The British Geological Survey's (BGS) work on local building stones in the UK will be the focus of a 'Building a future for stone' ...
»» more »» 29-09-2009
Links EdBlog: Damn and blast in Star newsroom! AN explosion in the North Sea off Felixstowe was a war-time bomb being blown up - a ...
»» more »» 29-09-2009
Energy Minister Arlene Foster has welcomed the arrival of a scientific survey ship that will assess the suitability of rocks benea ...
»» more »» 28-09-2009
Storage of carbon dioxide could bring in £5bn a year, say scientists..
»» more »» 08-09-2009
The North Sea will provide Britain with a natural resource worth as much as £10 billion a year if the Government exploits it as a store for carbon dioxide (CO2 ) captured from power stations...
»» more »» 09-09-2009
Updated 17 minutes ago South African Energy Minister Dipuo Peters will on Tuesday officially open the Carbon Capture and Storage ...
»» more »» 25-09-2009
The fossil record has been rewritten — in 150-million-year-old squid ink. The discovery of the perfectly preserved ink sac of a the inch-long cephalopod, a type of squid, has astonished palaeontologists...
»» more »» 19-08-2009
Energy Minister Arlene Foster has welcomed the arrival of a scientific survey ship that will assess the suitability of rocks benea ...
»» more »» 25-09-2009
The deepest coral reefs off the coast of Britain have been explored for the first time revealing ancient coral, colourful fish, deepwater sharks and even species that were previously unknown to science...
»» more »» 04-08-2009
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 09/16/09 -- Galantas Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE: GAL)(AIM: GAL)(the Company) has received a ...
»» more »» 16-09-2009
Monday, 14 September 2009 22:45 From tsunamis in Britain to huge avalanches in the Alps and volcanic eruptions in Germany, some o ...
»» more »» 15-09-2009
Vast quantities of carbon dioxide could be stored in porous rocks beneath the North Sea, providing a potential money-spinner for t ...
»» more »» 09-09-2009