From the creation of BRGM in 1959 to the current challenges of responding to new geoscientific issues, this site traces the history of the French Geological Survey.

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Extract from the French Geological Reference Platform geological map of the Pyrenees
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Lumni Enseignement - Educational resources for teachers and students
The Lumni Enseignement platform provides primary and secondary school teachers and their pupils with a wide range of educational resources from public partners (public media and cultural and scientif…
Water abstractions, Reunion Island
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Naïades: data on surface water quality
It is easy to find measurement data on the quality of rivers and water bodies via the Naïades website. Surface water-quality monitoring includes different types of data such as hydrobiology, hydromor…
Zone Euroméditerranée II, opération de rénovation urbaine menée avec le BRGM près du Vieux-Port de Marseille
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ORACLES
ORACLES is a multidisciplinary ANR project, set up to address the operational need to plan for coastal flooding. It is studying challenges relating to the production, interpretation and visualisation…
Flooding of the Seine at Triel-sur-Seine, Yvelines
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RéSoCIO - Exploiting social networks during natural disasters
The ANR RéSoCIO project aims to demonstrate the value and feasibility of setting up automated tools and a process to exploit data from the social network Twitter that can be used during crises caused…
A construction machine loading earth, Austria
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National Register of Waste, Excavated Soil and Sediments
The website of the National Register of Waste, Excavated Soil and Sediments provides an online service for reporting the information necessary for tracing this waste.
Effondrement de route suite à un tremblement de terre à Kunamoto au Japon
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Vigirisks - Scientific service platform on natural risks
In response to the increasing number of external demands for natural-risk prediction scenarios, BRGM has designed Vigirisks. This data-aggregation tool enables BRGM to fully exploit every area of its…
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