On 2 Sept 1859 magnetometers at Greenwich and Kew started to record wild deviations in compass direction. These variations persist ...
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Straddling two counties, one in Northern Ireland and one in the Irish Republic, Marble Arch Caves is the world's only transinterna ...
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The team behind GeoVisionary are adding functionality and features as sales escalate around the world. GeoVisionary 3D landscape v ...
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Four teams of budding scientists, engineers and business students competed at the British Geological Survey in Nottingham from 6-8 ...
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Hyslop, Ewan K.; Albornoz-Parra, Luis. 2009 Developing a future repairs strategy for a sandstone city : a petrographic investiga ...
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Lawley, R.. 2009 The Soil-Parent Material Database : a user guide. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 42pp. (OR/08/034) ...
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Rueedi, J.; Cronin, A.A.; Morris, Brian. 2009 Estimation of sewer leakage to urban groundwater using depth-specific hydrochemist ...
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Hamblin, Richard. 2009 The Crags of Sutton Knoll, Suffolk. Mercian Geologist, 17 (2). 136-138.
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Lloyd, Nicholas S.; Parrish, Randall R.; Horstwood, Matthew S.A.; Chenery, Simon R.N.. 2009 Precise and accurate isotopic analys ...
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Bide, T.; Idoine, N.E.; Brown, T.J.; Lusty, P.A.J.; Hitchen, K.. 2009 United Kingdom Minerals Yearbook 2008 : statistical data t ...
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Sargeant, Susanne; Musson, Roger. 2009 Rotational earthquake effects in the United Kingdom. Bulletin of the Seismological Societ ...
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Kender, Sev; Peck, Victoria; Jones, R.W.; Kaminski, M.A.. 2009 Middle Miocene oxygen minimum zone expansion offshore west Africa ...
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Loughlin, Sue; Baptie, Brian; McCourt, Bill. 2009 Explosive research : monitoring Montserrat's volcano : past, present, and futu ...
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British Geological Survey, University of Leicester. 2009 Sediment-hosted gas hydrates : new insights on natural and synthetic sy ...
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Using earthquakes as virtual microphones that record the sound of the Earth's internal movements
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The Landslide Response Team paid a visit to the recent landslide at Fenny Bentley in Derbyshire. See their findings.
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Long-term monitoring and measurement of the Earth's magnetic field helps to improve our scientific understanding of changes happen ...
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A BGS team has led an offshore survey in the north-east Atlantic Ocean discovering previously unknown deep-water cold-water coral reefs. ...
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BGS undertakes a range of national good activities on behalf of Government...
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Hosted by NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory and Department of Archaeology, Nottingham University at The British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham...
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Mike Stephenson of BGS is chairing a carbon capture and storage session at the British Association Festival of Science on Tuesday 8 Sept...
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Come along and bring the kids. Stands include gold panning, make your own fossil replica and make an earthquake.
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Building a Future for Stone at the Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London...
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The British Geological Survey (BGS) is hoping to consolidate all of its onshore and offshore cores at one site. It will provide a ...
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Teams of young scientists and engineers will compete in an environmental science challenge (Energy Resources and Land Use Conflict ...
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Minerals are essential materials needed to build our homes, schools, hospitals and work places; and the minerals industry is an im ...
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Scientists have developed a new technique to monitor movements beneath the earth's surface to help understand how earthquakes...
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London: British scientists claimed to have developed a new method by which arsenic poisoning can be measured through the clippings ...
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Scientists unearthed a fossilised squid which was so well preserved that they were able to draw a picture of it using its own 150 ...
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The fossil record has been rewritten in 150-million-year-old squid ink. The discovery of the perfectly preserved ink sac of a th ...
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Scientists have found a fossilised squid so well preserved that they were able to paint using its 150 million-year-old ink. The a ...
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More photos and drawings from the early days of caving exploration When Manchester caving expert Dave Checkley took a call from t ...
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A landslide which caused the closure of a Derbyshire road was the reactivation of an older and larger landslide, geologists have s ...
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EVERY inch of Nottingham's underground caves could be opened up to view in a virtual tour. Trent and Peak Archeology, part of the ...
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GeoVisionary 3D landscape visualising software, developed jointly by, virtual reality and advanced visualisation company, Virtalis ...
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Villagers living near the possible site of a new nuclear power station near Bristol staged a five-hour protest to prevent contract ...
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Cheetah Marine exhibited their latest 7.9m hydrographic survey vessel at Seawork this year. The catamaran has been built for Briti ...
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The deepest coral reefs off the coast of Britain have been explored for the first time revealing ancient coral, colourful fish, de ...
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