He said: "We are mining along the London Basin and so geology from chalk, flint, a mix of sand. "The geology has some surprises so you never know exactly what is happening underground, so it kept ...

London's rivers have been through massive transformation ... the enclosing of the river The Fleet was once a broad tidal basin, several hundred feet wide when it reached the Thames, but like ...

Once a dilapidated remnant of London’s 19th-century canal system, Paddington Basin has undergone a remarkable 20-year rejuvenation that has transformed this neglected corner of the capital into ...

by resuming the series of large and complete memoirs which had been in abeyance for many years before the publication of “Whitaker's Geology of the London Basin,” Part I., in 1872—a series ...

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