Landslide Research at the British Geological Survey:Capture,Storage and Interpretation on a National and Site-Specific Scale     

Catherine PENNINGTON  Claire FOSTER  Jonathan CHAMBERS  Gareth JENKINS 《《地质学报》英文版》2009,83(5):991-999

Abstract: Landslide research at the British Geological Survey (BGS) is carried out through a number of activities, including surveying, database development and real-time monitoring of landslides. Landslide mapping across the UK has been carried out since BGS started geological mapping in 1835. Today, BGS geologists use a combination of remote sensing and ground-based investigations to survey landslides. The development of waterproof tablet computers (BGS·SIGMAmobile), with inbuilt GPS and GIS for field data capture provides an accurate and rapid mapping methodology for field surveys. Regional and national mapping of landslides is carried out in conjunction with site-specific monitoring, using terrestrial LiDAR and differential GPS technologies, which BGS has successfully developed for this application. In addition to surface monitoring, BGS is currently developing geophysical ground-imaging systems for landslide monitoring, which provide real-time information on subsurface changes prior to failure events. BGS’s mapping and monitoring activities directly feed into the BGS National Landslide Database, the most extensive source of information on landslides in Great Britain. It currently holds over 14?000 records of landslide events. By combining BGS’s corporate datasets with expert knowledge, BGS has developed a landslide hazard assessment tool, GeoSure, which provides information on the relative landslide hazard susceptibility at national scale.  相似文献   

A chronostratigraphic comparison of Late-Weichselian and Late-Devensian subdivisions, illustrated by two radiocarbon-dated profiles from western Britain   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

WINIFRED PENNINGTON 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1975,4(3):157-171

¹⁴C-dated percentage and absolute late-glacial pollen diagrams from (1) Blelham Bog, north-west England and (2) Cam Loch, north-west Scotland arc subdivided into chronozones Bølling, Older Dryas, Allerød, and Younger Dryas as proposed for the Late-Weichselian sequence by Mangerud et al., Boreas 3 (1974), with boundaries defined in conventional ¹⁴C years. It is shown how these chronozone boundaries coincide in the two British pollen diagrams with boundaries between pollen assemblage zones which are interpreted as the results of environmental (climatic) changes. Differences between the pollen zones found in western Britain and those of the classic South Scandinavian profiles, which are interpreted as the consequence of regional differentiation in the vegetation of north-west Europe circa 14,500 to 10,000 years ago, pose serious problems in the correlation of Late-Weichselian and Late-Devensian subdivisions on the basis of pollen assemblage zones, but a chronostratigraphical classification makes it possible to compare the Late-Devensian profiles from western Britain with the Late-Weichselian subdivisions of Mangerud et al., in which 'chronozone boundaries seem to be climatically conditioned within southern Scandinavia'.  相似文献