During November 2011 Dr Kathryn Goodenough, a senior geologi ...
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BGS geologists presented their latest research on critical metals at the GeoRes Scotish Minerals Conference 2011...
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The BGS has won a contract from Defra...
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As part of the process to evaluate a potential potash deposit in North Yorkshire, the BGS has been contracted by...
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Stuart, Marianne; Lapworth, Dan; Crane, Emily; Hart, Alwyn. 2012 Review of risk from potential emerging contaminants in UK groun ...
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Acreman, M.C.; Blake, J.R.; Mountford, O.; Stratford, C.; Prudhomme, C.; Kay, A.; Bell, V.; Gowing, D.; Rothero, E.; Thompson, J ...
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Wilkinson, Paul; Meldrum, Philip; Loke, Meng Heng; Chambers, Jonathan; Kuras, Oliver; Gunn, David; Ogilvy, Richard. 2011 Minimis ...
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Wilkinson, Paul; Chambers, Jonathan; Kuras, Oliver; Meldrum, Philip; Gunn, David. 2011 Long-term time-lapse geoelectrical monito ...
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Royse, Katherine R.; de Freitas, Mike; Burgess, William G.; Cosgrove, John; Ghail, Richard C.; Gibbard, Phil; King, Chris; Lawre ...
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Burt, C.E.; Ruse, C.. 2011 Animal, vegetable or mineral? : unusual structures from the Dartmouth Group at Wembury Point, South D ...
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Musson, R.M.W.. 2012 PSHA validated by Quasi Observational Means. Seismological Research Letters, 83 (1). 130-134. 10.1785/?gssr ...
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Brain, C.K. Bob; Prave, Anthony R.; Hoffmann, Karl-Heinz; Fallick, Anthony E.; Botha, Andre; Herd, Donald A.; Sturrock, Craig; Y ...
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Curtis, Chris J.; Heaton, Timothy H.E.; Simpson, Gavin L.; Evans, Chris D.; Shilland, James; Turner, Simon. 2011 Dominance of bi ...
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Dearden, Rachel. 2012 British Geological Survey launch Infiltration SuDS Map. Water Active, March. 3, pp. (In Press)
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Exploration and production of shale gas from onshore UK requires the operator to obtain licenses from the UK Department of Energy...
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The BGS is a data-rich organisation with over 400 datasets in its care including environmental monitoring data, digital databases ...
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Recently, a collection of 'unregistered fossil plants' was found in one of the Survey's windowless vaults in Keyworth, in centr ...
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The project undertakes the maintenance and delivery of non-seismic UK geophysical data together with relevant research on geoscien ...
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Potential environmental effects of CO2 leakage in the marine and terrestrial environment: Understanding monitoring mitigation...»» more »» 21-02-2012

The enactment of the Floods and Water Management Act seems a long time ago, but the hard work starts in earnest when Sustainable D ...
»» more »» 29-02-2012

The UK needs to embrace technological innovations to meet future demand for safe, efficient operation of transport networks and in ...
»» more »» 08-03-2012

The BGS's annual Fossil and Rock Show will be back at Keyworth for National Science & Engineering Week in our completely r ...
»» more »» 14-03-2012

Depth 5.6 km; Lat/Long 55.172 North ,7.556 West; Felt Buncrana and surrounding villages
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Following recent observations of solar activity there is an increased risk of a geomagnetic storm from 24-JAN-2012 to 25-JAN-201 ...
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A treasure trove of fossils including plant specimens collected by Charles Darwin, have been rediscovered. The fossils, which ha ...
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The BGS has received information from the Media, the Police and several residents in towns and villages in Northumberland and Tyne ...
»» more »» 11-01-2012

Depth 1.1 km; Lat/Long 53.041 North,2.127 West; BGS have detected an earthquake at 12:00 UTC today (11 January 2012) located nea ...
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The British Geological Survey is undertaking a new project to establish the baseline of methane levels in groundwater throughout t ...
»» more »» 16-12-2011

BRACE yourself. Ireland was hit by a mini-earthquake yesterday and there may be more tremors to come...The quake, measuring 2.2 on ...
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THE US has led the world in extracting gas from shale but interest is now spreading elsewhere...Showing that methane in a water we ...
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An earthquake measuring 2.2 on the Richter scale has been recorded in north Donegal...The tremors, which were not strong enough to ...
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The enactment of the Floods and Water Management Act seems a long time ago, but the hard work starts in earnest when Sustainable D ...
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Glencoe was once a volcano. Unlike many of the Carboniferous volcanoes in the area of Edinburgh (Castle Rock, Arthur's Seat) it is ...
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It could be possible to see the aurora borealis as far south as London. So how do you maximise your chances of seeing the spectacu ...
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Baron Hutton of Furness has been appointed as non-executive director of Sirius Minerals, an Aim-listed company that plans to devel ...
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British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that ha ...
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For 160 years they lay forgotten in a dusty cabinet, lost to science because they had been hastily filed away...Now a treasure tr ...
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A "treasure trove" of fossils - including some collected by Charles Darwin - has been re-discovered in an old cabinet... ...
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I was in Berwick-on-Tweed yesterday when a mysterious rumble shook the town for a few seconds...The British Geological Survey said ...
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Stoke-on-Trent was hit by a earthquake on Wednesday, seismologists have confirmed...The 2.4 magnitude tremor was recorded near New ...
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