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The aim of the Landslides Project is to define, describe and catalogue the landslides and mass movements of Great Britain and interpret them in terms of the hazard that they engender so that they may be avoided, or mitigated. A central part of this project is the operation of the National Landslide Database. The National Landslide Database forms the primary record of landslide information in Great Britain. It records information gathered by the Landslide Project and projects elsewhere in the BGS on landslide events and landforms throughout Great Britain. It incorporates information from other databases, including regional landslide databases held within BGS which includes the National Landslide Database created for the DOE in 1994. The database records the name and location of all landslides known to the project and wherever possible also records information on classification, dimensions, physical characteristics, geology, history, causal factors and impacts of each landslide as well as references to other data sources.
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The commercial GeoReports project, under the National Geoscience Information Service sector of the Information Systems and Management directorate, produces around 8000 GeoReports a year, giving an annual turnover of over 600,000 pounds currently. The site specific reports are aimed at anyone who is investigating ground conditions in Great Britain (geology, hydrogeology and any related geohazards, including radon). Georeports reference: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/georeports
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The data set comprises vegetation species and abundance information, surveyed using a 50 x 50 cm point quadrat, from a selection of the plots within an experimental site at Sourhope, Scotland. The surveys were carried out in the summers of 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. The data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, established in 1999 and centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute) farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders (Grid reference: NT8545019630). During the experiment, the site was monitored to assess changes in above-ground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c730867f-ffd7-4d2d-9dd0-e2f30a7dbbf6
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**No longer exists - now part of GeoSure**An assessment of the potential for a geological deposit to collapse under a critical load. A characteristic usually of loess or loessic material. The methodology is based on BGS digital stratigraphic linework and expert knowledge of the behaviour of the formations so defined.
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The Geoscience Large Object Store (GLOS) is a database for the storage of models and related digital objects, together with metadata that describes the details of the originating model software. This will allow the models to be re-used by the originating software this presupposes that the software and hardware platforms are still available for use. Longer-term preservation will be achieved through the use of the Geoscience Spatial Framework.
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**No longer exists - now part of GeoSure**An assessment of the potential for an area to be affected by geological deposits that have suffered or are suffering dissolution through natural processes. A characteristic usually of deposits such as evaporites (rock salt, gypsum), chalk or limestone. The methodology is based on BGS digital stratigraphic linework and expert knowledge of the behaviour of the formations so defined in three dimensions.
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This data set details soil pH values and soil moisture values from experimental plots at a field site at Sourhope, Scotland, between 1998 and 2002. Data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, which was established in 1999 and was centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute) farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders (Grid reference: NT8545019630). During the experiment, the site was monitored to assess changes in above-ground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788
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PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. This proposal seeks to test the hypothesis that a mantle hotspot was responsible for generating boninite magmas in the Izu - Bonin - Mariana (IBM) arc during the middle Eocene. Reconstruction of the plate configuration at that time places the nascent IBM arc close to the location of the present Manus Basin, where a high 3He/4He hotspot has been identified through helium isotope data and tomographic imaging. This project will deliver: 3He/4He data for middle Eocene boninites to resolve the hotspot-present or hotspot-absent models for initiation of the IBM arc. Pb and O isotope ratios and U and Th concentration data to aid in constraining subduction and crustal contamination in the petrogenesis of these rocks. A framework for investigating Archean tectonics and volcanic massive sulphide deposits.
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**No longer exists - now part of GeoSure**An assessment of the potential for a geological deposit to show running sand behaviour under the action of flowing water. A characteristic usually of saturated sand and silt grade material. The methodology is based on BGS digital stratigraphic linework and expert knowledge of the behaviour of the formations so defined.
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PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. The Amazon Cone is a deep-sea fan system that developed on a continental margin, North East Brazil and French Guiana, approximately 90-100 Myr following a rifting event. Gravityand flexure modelling suggest that the Cone sediments have loaded the margin almost to the limits of its strength. The investigators propose to carry out the first seismic refraction experiment to determine the structure of the crust and mantle that has been deformed by the Cone load. The experiment will provide new constraints on the structure, the nature of the ocean-continental boundary, the thermal and mechanical properties, and the resource potential of deep-water continental margins.