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6 unusual facts about British Geological Survey


Berwyn Mountain UFO incident

The Institute of Geological Sciences (now British Geological Survey) reported that a magnitude 3.5 earthquake was felt at 8:38 p.m. that night over a wide area of North Wales and as far as Liverpool (also in Formby 13 miles north of Liverpool).

Eileen Hendriks

In 1930 she attempted to become the first woman geologist employed by the Geological Survey of Great Britain, but her application was unsuccessful.

International Year of Planet Earth

That initiative, spearheaded by Ian Jackson of the British Geological Survey, came under the IYPE banner in 2007.

Martin Litherland

From 1993 until retirement in 2000, Litherland worked in the Keyworth office of the British Geological Survey.

Mayfield Road, Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh's science campus, King's Buildings, between Mayfield Road and West Mains Road, contains over 40 buildings, including facilities run by the Scottish Agricultural College and the British Geological Survey.

William Hellier Baily

From 1837 to 1844 he was Assistant Curator in the Bristol Museum, a post he relinquished to join the staff of the British Geological Survey in London.


David Gwilym Morris Roberts

During his career Roberts also served as chairman of the British Geological Survey, of the Football Stadia Advisory Design Council, the Second Severn Crossing Technical Adjudication Panel and as Visiting Professor at Loughborough University.

Margaret Crosfield

Crosfield kept meticulous ordered note books and field specimens, some of which are kept at the British Geological Survey in Keyworth, Nottingham.

OPAL Soil Centre

The OPAL Soil Centre has high profile partners including the Environment Agency, British Geological Survey, and the Natural History Museum.

Stuart Monro

Monro graduated in Geology from Aberdeen University in 1970 and then received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh while embarking upon a lengthy career with the British Geological Survey, making a number of distinguished contributions to the understanding of the geology of central Scotland and the application of geology to environmental issues.

Yorkshire Geological Society

It also has working relationships with around two dozen Corresponding Societies and other affiliated local geological and conservation societies and organisations, and with many of the universities of the region, as well as with the British Geological Survey, particularly its headquarters at Keyworth, Nottinghamshire.

From the late 19th century onwards the Society developed ever-closer links with the emerging earth science departments in the university colleges and universities of Yorkshire and adjacent counties and with the Geological Survey, particularly at its former Leeds and Newcastle offices, and these close links remain today with the British Geological Survey's headquarters at Keyworth, Nottinghamshire.

ZOOMQ3D

ZOOMQ3D and ZOOPT have been developed through a tri-partite collaboration between the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Birmingham, UK, the British Geological Survey and the Environment Agency of England and Wales.


see also

2008 Lincolnshire earthquake

The British Geological Survey gave the earthquake a reading of 5.2bMb.