Research News and Awards
Statement from Professor Alan J Thorpe,
Chief Executive, NERC...
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The East Midlands Development Agency (emda) is supporting the BGS to fund a two-year pilot of ALERT technology»» more »» 22-06-2010
A new Marine Environmental Mapping Programme (MAREMAP) initiative led by the British Geological Survey and the <a href="ht ...
»» more »» 21-06-2010
Congratulations to Randy Parrish for being awarded the Murchison Medal by the Geological Society of London this week. The Murchiso ...
»» more »» 07-06-2010
Recent publications
Mertens, Kenneth Neil; Verhoeven, Koen; Verleye, Thomas; Louwye, Stephen; Amorim, Ana; Ribeiro, Sofia; Deaf, Amr S.; Harding, Ia ...
»» more »» 02-07-2010
Palumbo-Roe, B.; Colman, T.. 2010 The nature of waste associated with closed mines in England and Wales. Nottingham, UK, British ...
»» more »» 30-06-2010
Mendum, J.R.; Noble, S.R.. 2010 Mid-Devonian sinistral transpressional movements on the Great Glen Fault : the rise of the Rosem ...
»» more »» 30-06-2010
Wilkinson, I.P.; Wilby, P.R.; Williams, M.; Siveter, D.J.; Page, A.A.; Leggitt, L.; Riley, D.A.. 2010 Exceptionally preserved os ...
»» more »» 30-06-2010
Graham, Alastair G.C.; Lonergan, Lidia; Stoker, Martyn S.. 2010 Depositional environments and chronology of Late Weichselian gla ...
»» more »» 30-06-2010
Leslie, A.G.; Krabbendam, M.; Kimbell, G.S.; Strachan, R.A.. 2010 Regional-scale lateral variation and linkage in ductile thrust ...
»» more »» 29-06-2010
Beamish, D.; Kimbell, G.S.; Stone, P.; Anderson, T.B.. 2010 Regional conductivity data used to reassess Early Palaeozoic structu ...
»» more »» 29-06-2010
Hosseini, A.; Beresford, N.A.; Brown, J.E.; Jones, D.G.; Phaneuf, M.; Thrring, H.; Yankovich, T.. 2010 Background dose-rates to ...
»» more »» 28-06-2010
Calow, Roger; MacDonald, Alan; Nicol, A.L.; Robins, Nick. 2010 Ground water security and drought in Africa : linking availabilit ...
»» more »» 25-06-2010
Stoker, Martyn S.; Holford, Simon P.; Hillis, Richard R.; Green, Paul F.; Duddy, Ian R.. 2010 Cenozoic post-rift sedimentation o ...
»» more »» 24-06-2010
What's new on the website
Over the last 500 000 years, glaciers have carved and shaped the stunning fjord landscape that characterizes the west coast of Sco ...
»» more »» 06-07-2010
On 5 June 2010, the International Appalachian Trail (IAT) officially welcomed Scotland and the West Highland Way (WHW) as the firs ...
»» more »» 21-06-2010
Covering digital soil, stream sediment and stream water geochemical maps of ten environmentally sensitive elements, including Ar ...
»» more »» 17-06-2010
We have a long-standing and trusted relationship with most of the major oil companies and national government. Our impartial remit ...
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BGS Events diary
Conference of the International Geoscience Educators Organisation
South Africa...
»» more »» 30-08-2010
The Extractive Industry Geology 2010 conference will be held at the University of Portsmouth, September 2010...
»» more »» 08-09-2010
To be held at Leicester University from 17-19 September 2010. BGS is sponsoring the conference...
»» more »» 17-09-2010
BGS News Releases
The British Geological Survey today released a profile on rare earth elements. This comes amidst increasing concerns over the secu ...
»» more »» 16-06-2010
Sandstone rocks deep beneath the Moray Firth are being examined for the storage of carbon dioxide emissions. This is the first tim ...
»» more »» 02-06-2010
BGS in the media
The Energy Technologies Institute is to carry out a detailed study of the availability and distribution of suitable minerals acros ...
»» more »» 10-07-2010
Andrew Haines, chief executive of the Civil Aviation Authority, writes for ePolitix ahead of Tuesdays briefing for MPs on volcanic ...
»» more »» 08-07-2010
A complete Virtalis StereoWorks ActiveWall display system and Virtual Reality (VR) suite has been installed at the Geological Surv ...
»» more »» 07-07-2010
Theres a difference between reserves and resources; rare earth resources on all the continents; rare earths more abundant than...
»» more »» 30-06-2010
THEY are thousands of miles apart on different continents and also run through landscapes that appear to be very...
»» more »» 20-06-2010
The official welcome came nearly a year to the day after an IAT delegation from Maine and Newfoundland travelled to Scotland to ho ...
»» more »» 17-06-2010
New publication addresses security of supply concerns for vital rare earth raw materials The British Geological Survey today rele ...
»» more »» 17-06-2010
WAS Afghanistan's mineral bounty simply undiscovered until now? Not quite. Geologists announced this week that a trillion dollars ...
»» more »» 15-06-2010
Afghanistan has some of the most complex and varied geology in the world. Mining companies have always known about its potential b ...
»» more »» 14-06-2010
A second massive sinkhole to appear in Guatemala City in four years may also have been caused by a combination of geological anoma ...
»» more »» 10-06-2010
The British Geological Survey is hosting a two day conference. This conference is aimed at UK institutions and businesses that are ...
»» more »» 09-06-2010
TOWNSHIP 5, RANGE 8, Maine First, there was the Appalachian Trail, which winds 2,175 miles along the mountainous spine of the ea ...
»» more »» 07-06-2010