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Geological core stored in the National Geological Repository, Keyworth. BGS © UKRI.
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Why do we store geological core?

11/09/2025

With space at a premium and the advance of new digitisation techniques, why does retaining over 600 km of physical specimens remain of national importance?

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Understanding the distribution of seabed sediments is important for a wide range of applications. © Kammeran Gonzalez-Keola, Pexels.
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New seabed sediment maps reveal what lies beneath the waves

03/09/2025

Marine ecosystem science and offshore infrastructure will be boosted by a new dataset showing sediment composition across the UK continental shelf.

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Fieldwork setting up the Abergavenny geomagnetic repeat station BGS © UKRI.
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NERC Tech Forum 2025

Event on 03/06/2025

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Field team with local guides ready to collect soil samples from the surrounding forest. BGS © UKRI.
BGS blogs

PhD adventures in the Philippines: coring around Lake Bulusan 

05/09/2025

Chris Bengt recounts his two-week field trip to Bulusan Volcano Natural Park in the Philippines to collect lake sediment cores, fresh soil and water samples.

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Six BGS datasets for assessing shrink–swell subsidence hazards

17/02/2023

Shrink–swell subsidence is one of the most significant geological hazards affecting the UK. BGS has six datasets to help assess the problem.

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A map of the southern Turkey/northern Syria area showing fault lines in blue and the epicentres of the two major earthquakes of 6 February 2023 as red circles and many aftershocks as yellow circles.
BGS news
The Kahraman Maraş earthquake sequence, Turkey/Syria, 2023

14/02/2023

Two large earthquakes occurred within hours of each other on 6 February 2023.

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A diagram of houses and the associated shrink-swell risks.
BGS blogs
Property subsidence assessment: helping to mitigate shrink–swell hazard risk

25/01/2023

The BGS Property Subsidence Assessment dataset provides insurers and homeowners with tools to better understand shrink–swell and the risk it poses to homes and businesses.

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Depth map of Tonga caldera. Source: Shane Cronin / Uni of Auckland / Tonga Geological Services
BGS news
One year on: reflections on the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption

18/01/2023

The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcano in January 2022 has highlighted a global unpreparedness for the impacts from large-scale global events.

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Earthquake damage on the Greek island of Kos in 2017. Rubble lies in a street that has fallen from a semi-ruined building.
BGS blogs
MYRIAD-EU: shifting the paradigm in disaster risk management

17/01/2023

How changing our approach to disaster risk reduction practices can create a more resilient future.

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BGS blogs
Five places in Yorkshire to assess key geological hazards

21/12/2022

A field trip to Yorkshire has helped our data products team improve their output.

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A snow-capped volcano in the background and the oceanside in the foreground
BGS blogs
IODP Expedition 386: hosting a sampling party in Japan

19/12/2022

BGS help lead the final phase of IODP Expedition 386 in Japan, coordinating science colleagues from around the globe to extract samples from sediment cores aboard DV Chikyu.

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A geological map of the Maltese Islands
BGS news
New geological map of the Maltese Islands published

19/12/2022

The new map, commissioned by Malta’s Continental Shelf Department, is the first update for almost 30 years.

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