The BGS monitors glaciers and the landscape that surrounds them in a number of ways, such as boreholes, ground penetrating radar and hydrometric monitoring.
Successful storage operations require rigorous site characterisation focused on risk reduction for selected storage sites.
Rapid erosion of the cliffs at Happisburgh means that we can observe processes that may normally take thousands of years at other sites.
An integral part of the G-BASE and TellusNI survey programs was to map and establish the soil geochemical baselines of urban areas in the UK. Systematic geochemical sampling and analysis of soil samples was carried out in 25 urban centres.
Medical geology is the study of the relationships between geoenvironmental factors and the health of plants, animals and humans.
The UK has a number of sites that have been explored for shale gas deposits.
Partial collapse of a house in Ripon, Yorkshire, in 2014 was due to the formation of a sinkhole resulting from the dissolution of thick gypsum deposits beneath the area.
Understanding and quantifying the hazard earthquakes pose to the built environment in the UK.
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