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Understanding the rocks that underlie our towns and cities, the risks they can present and how they influence urban planning and redevelopment.
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Understanding how one of the world’s most active volcanoes builds up material, and how they collapse to feed hot flows
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Tsunami sediments study and satellite mapping | Japan fieldwork 2011
24/06/2011
BGS scientists visited north-east Japan to study the area devastated by the tsunami caused by the Great Tohoku earthquake of 11 March 2011.