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The British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate, better known by its acronym BIRPS, was set up to acquire deep seismic reflection profiles around the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS). It was formed, initially as BURPS, the British Universities Reflection Profiling Syndicate, involving geophysicists from the Natural Environment ...
In 1965, it was merged with the Geological Museum and Overseas Geological Surveys, under the name of Institute of Geological Sciences. [3] On 1 January 1984, the institute was renamed the British Geological Survey (and often referred to as the BGS), a name still carried today. [4] Since 1835, there have been 20 directors of the survey.
The Geological Society offices in Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, [1] is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. It is the oldest national geological society in the world and the largest in Europe, with more than 12,000 Fellows.
British Geological Survey (BGS) British Organic Geochemical Society (BOGS) British Society for Geomorphology; Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre – England; Edinburgh Geological Society – Scotland; Geological Curators' Group – England; Geological Society of Glasgow – Scotland; Geological Society of London (GSL) – England [1 ...
It includes the Red Rock Fault, Bridgemere Fault and Wem Fault and reaches from Shropshire through eastern Cheshire to southeast Lancashire. [ 1 ] At Norbury Brook, Poynton , on the border of Cheshire and Greater Manchester , the Millstone Grit of the Pennines makes a 200 metres (660 ft) downfall to be covered to the west by the glacial tills ...
In geology, a disturbance is a linear zone of disturbed rock strata stretching for many miles across country which comprises a combination of folding and faulting.The British Geological Survey record a number of such features in South Wales including the Neath Disturbance, Pontyclerc Disturbance, Carreg Cennen Disturbance and the Cribarth Disturbance, the latter sometimes also known (at least ...
British Regional Geology: The Pennines & adjacent areas (BGS:BRG8) British Regional Geology: Eastern England from the Tees to The Wash (BGS:BRG9) British Regional Geology: Central England (BGS:BRG10) Earp, J.R. & Hains, B.A. 1971 British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland (3rd edn), London, HMSO for British Geological Survey (BGS:BRG11)
The geology of Great Britain is renowned for its diversity. As a result of its eventful geological history, Great Britain shows a rich variety of landscapes across the constituent countries of England, Wales and Scotland. Rocks of almost all geological ages are represented at outcrop, from the Archaean onwards.