BGS News Summary June 2011

Research News and Awards

BGS Highly Commended | Esri UK 2011 GIS Vision Awards

The BGS received a Highly Commended award for iGeology
»» more »» 24-06-2011

BGS joins pan-European CGS Europe networking project

BGS, as part of the European »» more »» 22-06-2011

Will there be a drought in 2011?

Groundwater scientists in BGS are watching groundwater levels across the country closely. A relatively dry winter and a very dry e ...
»» more »» 28-04-2011

Recent publications

An initial assessment of sediment and water quality in the post-industrial Clyde catc ...

Lass-Evans, S.; Fordyce, F.M.; Breward, N.; Jones, D.G.; Lister, T.R.. 2011 An initial assessment of sediment and water quality ...
»» more »» 19-07-2011

Spatial distribution of trace metals in urban soils and road dusts : GIS and the iden ...

Cardoso, R.; Taylor, K.; Breward, N.; Fordyce, F.M.; Cheng, J.. 2011 Spatial distribution of trace metals in urban soils and roa ...
»» more »» 19-07-2011

Where is North?

Macmillan, Susan; Shanahan, Tom. 2010 Where is North? Planet Earth, Autumn. 16-17.
»» more »» 19-07-2011

Geomagnetic field, global pattern

Macmillan, Susan. 2011 Geomagnetic field, global pattern. In: Gupta, Harsh K., (ed.) Encyclopedia of solid earth geophysics. Spr ...
»» more »» 19-07-2011

Age constraints and geochemistry of the Ordovician Tyrone Igneous Complex, Northern I ...

Cooper, M.R.; Crowley, Q.G.; Hollis, S.P.; Noble, S.R.; Roberts, S.; Chew, D.; Earls, G.; Herrington, R.; Merriman, R.J.. 2011 A ...
»» more »» 19-07-2011

The spatial variation of weathering and soil depth across a Triassic sandstone outcro ...

Tye, A.M.; Lawley, R.L.; Ellis, M.A.; Rawlins, B.G.. 2011 The spatial variation of weathering and soil depth across a Triassic s ...
»» more »» 19-07-2011

BGS Consultancy : UNICEF IWASH Project, Northern Region, Ghana. Final report

O Dochartaigh, B.E.; Davies, J.; Beamish, D.; MacDonald, A.M.. 2011 BGS Consultancy : UNICEF IWASH Project, Northern Region, Gha ...
»» more »» 18-07-2011

The SADC Groundwater Data and Information Archive, Knowledge Sharing and Co-operation ...

Davies, J.; Cobbing, J.; Robins, N.S.; Talbot, J.C.. 2011 The SADC Groundwater Data and Information Archive, Knowledge Sharing a ...
»» more »» 18-07-2011

The Holme Pierrepont sand and gravel and the timing of Middle and Late Devensian floo ...

Howard, Andy J.; Carney, John N.; Greenwood, Malcolm T.; Keen, David H.; Mighall, Tim; O'Brien, Charlotte; Tetlow, Emma. 2011 Th ...
»» more »» 18-07-2011

Distribution of iodine in soils of Northern Ireland, UK

Smyth, Dermot; Johnson, Christopher C.. 2011 Distribution of iodine in soils of Northern Ireland, UK. Geochemistry : Exploration ...
»» more »» 18-07-2011


What's new on the website

English Channel, SSE of Portsmouth | Magnitude 3.9 | 14 July 2011

The British Geological Survey have detected an earthquake of magnitude 3.9
»» more »» 14-07-2011

Structure and evolution of the East Midlands region of the Pennine Basin | New Memoir

The subsurface of the East Midlands region has been intensively explored by ...
»» more »» 11-07-2011

Tsunami or meteotsunami? | South West England | June 2011

On 27 June 2011 a tsunami was reported in South West England, between Penzance and Portsmouth, along approximately 200miles of ...
»» more »» 05-07-2011

Landslide Assessment GeoReport

New landslide assessment for those with an interest in the landslides in a particular area or for preliminary site assessments. M ...
»» more »» 04-07-2011

Needles

BGS Events diary

BGS Open Day & Schools Week | Edinburgh | 24 Sept

A BGS Open Day has been held annually in September at our Edinburgh office ...
»» more »» 24-09-2011

Shale Gas Environmental Summit | London | 2-3 Nov 2011

The main focus of this conference is to examine the existing, current and proposed shale gas extraction, with a focus on the assoc ...
»» more »» 02-11-2011


BGS News Releases

BGS Seismic Alert : English Channel (approx 85 km SSE of Portsmouth) 14 July 2011 06: ...

Depth 10 km ; Lat/Long 50.098o North ,0.648o West;
»» more »» 13-07-2011

BGS Seismic Alert : Newton Abbot, Devon 23 June 2011 13:43 UTC 2.7

Depth 1.5km; Lat/Long 50.568 North,3.745 West;
»» more »» 22-06-2011

UK joins the earthquake risk reduction 'task force'

Over half a million people have died in the last decade due to earthquakes, most of these in the developing world where risk is in ...
»» more »» 13-06-2011

Niobium-Tantalum — Smart Metals for Phones and Bones

A new guide to niobium and tantalum has been published by the British Geological Survey (BGS) on its www.MineralsUK.com website ...
»» more »» 20-05-2011

BGS in the media

Earthquake hits English Channel

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 has struck in the English Channel, the British Geological Survey (BGS) said. (BBC News)
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Antarctic experts meet for conference in Edinburgh

The international symposium, which is taking place 100 years after Captain Scott's famous Antarctic expedition, is organised and h ...
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English Tsunami The Result Of Weather Conditions

... on 27 June was most likely caused by weather conditions and not a submarine landslide or earthquake, according to the British ...
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The hair-raising truth about the Cornish tsunami triggered...

'I'm 99 per cent certain,' he says, pointing out that seismographs of the British Geological Survey did not seem to have detected ...
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Scientists study Tsunami deposits in Sendai, Japan ...

... Rob Witter (Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, U.S.A.), Catherine Chagu-Goff (University of New South Wales ...
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Water tables (Letter to the Guardian)

...'geological mapping since 1835 is being curtailed: at least a fifth of our bedrock geology needs significant revision, plus man ...
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Borehole hits the jackpot

Hot water from Newcastle's geothermal borehole finally gushed to the surface this week. During the early hours of Monday 27th June ...
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Analysis: Faults buried deep in the earth make detection a hard task

The faults responsible for these quakes were buried below the surface and there was little indication they existed or could result ...
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Dr Jeremy Robin Davies has been awarded an MBE for services to Science

Dr Jeremy Robin Davies Honorary Research Associate, British Geological Survey (Aberystwyth, Ceredigion). Awarded an MBE for servic ...
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Space weather expert downplays threat to Earth from solar ...

Solar flare that accompanied a coronal mass ejection from the sun on Tuesday will have limited effect on the Earth's magnetic fiel ...
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Public asked to send experts samples of ash to help ...

ASH particles that have fallen in homes and gardens in Scotland can be collected ... (The Scotsman)
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Scientists Ask Britons to Help Map Grimsvotn Ash

LONDON (Reuters) - Geoscientists at the British Geological Survey (BGS) group asked members of the public for help on Wednesday wi ...
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