News Archive

Geology map and cross-section of the Weald Basin, SE England

September News

8th September 2020

Great to see the results from our GNSS and lidar monitoring of the Humbly Grove gas storage site in southern England published this month in First Break. Our ground motion monitoring, together with InSAR, provided high definition temporal and spatial constraint on any surface displacements over an 18 month period (i.e. more than one complete…

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The new (old!) 1950’s Spain’s Field Farm, now rebuilt at Beamish Museum

August News

16th August 2020

Beamish – The Living Museum of the North – is one of UK’s (and GRL’s!) favourite tourist attractions. Despite Covid restrictions, the museum is still open for business, and it’s great to see that work is continuing apace to complete the exciting expansion plans that were formulated long before lock-down. One part of the new…

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GNSS and InSAR data record fault offsets on east flank of Etna, December 2018

July News Update

30th July 2020

It seems strange not to be out-and-about at conferences, workshops and trade meetings during these strange times of Covid-lockdown, though we’ve all managed to adapt rapidly to the new normal of communication via Skype, Zoom and Teams. This month we’ve enjoyed presenting some of our latest monitoring technologies remotely to the Northern regional group of…

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Scaling relationship for fracture apertures from boreholes in basement

July News

22nd July 2020

The latest in a long line of papers on fracture systems in basement rocks has just been posted in the “Online First” section of the Journal of the Geological Society of London. Following-on from Bob Holdsworth’s recent papers on the Lancaster field (see here and here), in the paper posted today Ken McCaffrey has collated…

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High heat-flow from fractured geothermal reservoir rocks in the Philippines

June News

11th June 2020

More research on fractured reservoirs just published in the Journal of the Geological Society, London. The latest paper is from Loraine Pastoriza’s PhD work to characterise fracture attributes in a geothermal reservoir at Southern Negros in the Philippines. Situated on an active plate margin, the high heat flow in the Philippines is a viable geothermal…

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Schematic depiction of progressive formation of Zechstein collapse breccias

May News

8th May 2020

Great to see this important multi-disciplinary work on fractured Zechstein reservoirs appear in print in Geological Society Special Publication 494. A big effort from Susie and GRL colleagues – along with major input from Maurice Tucker, Michael Mawson, Bob Holdsworth, and Jon Gluyas.

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Example of time-series data from one of our GNSS pairs monitoring coastal landslides at Whitby, NE England

April News

8th April 2020

Since the autumn we’ve been running a successful field test to demonstrate the utility of our low-cost GNSS units to monitor ground movement cause by local landslides on the coast near Whitby (NE England). This was part of the “Mostly Coastal” project funded by ESA Business Applications (European Space Agency) and the UK Satellite Applications…

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Two examples of very poor precision in orientation measurements using Apple smartphones and tablets

March News

11th March 2020

We’ve long been advocates for the digital acquisition of field data (e.g. see here, here and many more here), so the arrival of compass/clino smartphone ‘apps’ got us quite excited – not least for our analysis of fracture networks, where we typically make thousands or tens of thousands of individual orientation measurements. Digitalisation promises massive…

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Highly fractured and faulted Lewisian basement, Upper Garrabost beach, Lewis

July News

12th July 2019

We’ve just got back from a scouting mission to Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, to finalise the field itinerary and double-check logistics and HSE for our upcoming workshop in fractured basement reservoirs, scheduled for September. It rained! A lot! And it was so windy that the arrival of our trip leader Bob Holdsworth was delayed…

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