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carnkie
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12 years ago

A new surveying technique developed at The University of Nottingham is giving geologists their first detailed picture of how ground movement associated with historical mining is changing the face of our landscape.

The new development by engineers at the University has revealed a more complete map of subsidence and uplift caused by the settlement of old mines in the East Midlands and other areas of the country and has shown that small movements in the landscape are bound by natural fault lines and mining blocks.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121114134656.htm

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

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Ty Gwyn
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12 years ago

Personally,i would have thought subsidence along fault plains ,where coal has been worked up to the said fault ,was common sense.

Trewillan
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12 years ago

"Ty Gwyn" wrote:
Personally,i would have thought subsidence along fault plains ,where coal has been worked up to the said fault ,was common sense.

Well yes, but this is University research!