In 2019, a landslide occurred on a disused former sandstone quarry slope in Mansfield and affected over 35 properties.
Decarbonisation of power production, heat, transport and industry is a major challenge and one that intrinsically involves geoscience.
Creating multi-scale geological map data, 3D models and applied geological knowledge to meet stakeholder needs in the UK.
Where earthquakes occur around the world and in the UK.
Landslides are classified by their type of movement. The four main types of movement are falls, topples, slides and flows.
The Anthropocene is a newly proposed geological time-unit, first suggested in the year 2000. It is as significant as the discovery of plate tectonics.
The BGS is a data-rich organisation. Our data science and data infrastructure are fundamental to our future research and underpin our strategic challenges.
The Gault Formation was deposited in the Cretaceous and crops out from East Anglia to west Dorset, and from north-east Kent to Sussex.
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