The building of a new applied geology for the Chalk has been a two-way process between
academic research and learning from industry which aspects of the geology are of special …

The population of London is around 7 million. The infrastructure to support this makes
London one of the most intensively investigated areas of upper crust. However construction …

Abstract In this paper, Persistent Scatterer Interferometry was applied to ERS-1/2 and
ENVISAT satellite data covering 1992–2000 and 2002–2010 respectively, to analyse the …

This Glossop Lecture is about landslides and their slip surfaces at residual strength in clays.
Particularly in southern England, but also elsewhere, landslides in infrastructure cuttings …

Long term planning for flood risk management in coastal areas requires timely and reliable
information on changes in land and sea levels. A high resolution map of current changes in …

Engineering works carried out in central London over many decades have revealed a
number of buried hollows that exhibit curious characteristics. Some extend deep into the …

During the late Cretaceous to early Paleogene, the present-day area of Britain and Ireland
emerged from nearly total submergence by the chalk sea. What mechanism was responsible …

The petrographic and mechanical properties of flints from the Burnham (North Landing,
Yorkshire, UK), Seaford (East Sussex, UK, and Dieppe, France), and Lewes Nodular (Mesnil …

London lies mainly within an area of long-term tectonic stability known as the London
Platform. This is characterised by relatively thin Cretaceous and Palaeogene sequences …

Sediment-filled caves, conduits and voids are common in many karst regions. These voids
and the sediment they contain are important palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental …