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9 results for "quaternary geology"
![Pale cliffs above a flat grassy area with ivy and trees growing across some of them. There are several, large and small caves in the cliffs.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/geograph-6702517-by-Sandy-Gerrard.jpg)
Creswell Crags Museum collections offer insight into the past and future of wolves
Bones found at the site are helping scientists to understand the diet of wolves and how they differ over time.
![P1038353](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/P1038353.webp)
Hungry like a wolf: new insights from old bones housed in the BGS museum collections
BGS scientists are studying the diets of ancient British wolves and how they adapted to changing environments.
![The Codleteth Burn catchment with its outlet fan system and recent debris flow deposits near Talla Linfoots. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/P1038346-scaled-1-960x640.jpg)
Moving stones: faults, slopes and sediments
Fractured rock along faults affects sediment movement on slopes with implications for the design of infrastructure.
![Eight people sitting and standing at the sunshine and smiling; four standing at the back and four sitting on a bench at the front.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Team_pic-1.jpg)
Five places in Yorkshire to assess key geological hazards
A field trip to Yorkshire has helped our data products team improve their output.
![P608454](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/P608454-960x645.jpg)
Understanding long-term burial of organic carbon deposits
Carbon sequestration is one method of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, by capturing and storing it, contributing to climate change reduction.
![Rhossilli Bay on the Gower, south Wales](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Bristol_Channel_Rhian.jpg)
New seabed maps offer a window into the distant past
BGS has begun publishing a new series of high-resolution offshore geological maps showing the distribution of bedrock and sediments that make up the seabed around our coasts.
![An atlantic salmon attempting to jump up a waterfall in the Scottish Highlands, on a journey to spawning grounds.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Atlantic_salmon_iStock.jpg)
Climate change and human exploitation linked to historic decline in Atlantic salmon
New research reveals that both a change in climate and human exploitation played a role in a decline in North Atlantic salmon populations.
![A view of the Chew Bahir lake in southern Ethiopia showing a current dry period. Photo by Julian Ruddock.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Chew_Bahir_in_southern_Ethiopia_photo_by_Julian_Ruddock.png)
Climate change and human migration out of Africa
An international team of scientists have shown how climate change could have enabled the migration of Homo sapiens around 60 000 years ago.