Landslides BGS 05
Landslides BGS 05 : Susceptible locations. The British Geological Survey (BGS) National Landslide Database holds information on over 15 000 landslide events in Great Britain. Inland areas susceptible to landsliding include the Pennines, North Yorkshire, the South Wales Coalfield and debris flows in mountainous areas such as the Highlands of Scotland. Many of these landslides are linked to the last glaciation and are now heavily degraded and stabilised; others are still active. The south and east 'soft rock' coasts of England have geology that is sufficiently weak to be affected by coastal erosion. Some very large, deep-seated, active landslides are located in this area (e.g. Folkestone Warren in Kent, and Black Ven in Dorset). Other types of landslides include flows (e.g. those seen in the London Clay at Herne Bay, Kent) and falls and topples (e.g. Beachy Head, Sussex, and Portland Bill, Dorset). BGS produces the GeoSure national dataset, which provides information about potential ground movement, including landslides, in the form of 1:50 000 scale digital maps (http://www.bgs.ac.uk/ products/geosure/)
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