Groundwater is vulnerable to contamination from a wide range of human activities including agriculture, urbanisation, waste disposal, past and present industry and from pollution incidents.
BGS worked with National Grid to undertake a screening exercise to identify potential geological and flooding hazards that might impact their network.
Major transport projects create and utilise excavated materials to create underpinning infrastructure (in the form of tunnels, cuttings and embankments).
Recently there has been a trend towards the collection of ever-more quantitative data, as exemplified by the Tellus projects.
Cambering, gulls and valley bulging are responses to stress relief that results from rapid erosion of the landscape in conjunction with gravitational forces.
The Samburu-Marsabit Geological Mapping and Mineral Exploration Project was a joint Kenyan and British technical co-operation project.
During the period 1967 to 1971 a team of geoscientists carried out a programme of regional geological mapping in parts of Peru.
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