{"id":7436,"date":"2020-01-17T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T10:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/research\/science-facilities\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T10:18:35","slug":"science-facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/geological-research\/science-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Science facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t
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