BRGM has been managing the inventory of quarries in France on behalf of the French government since 2006. As part of this mission, it has compiled a "Quarries and Materials" database (BD CARMA) of ...

How can one respond effectively to spatial planning challenges and issues relating to the subsurface without having knowledge of regolith formations at an appropriate scale? The RégoKaruk project aims ...

With 28 resorts and 183,290 people (out of a total 576,000 nationally) taking the waters every year, Occitania has more spas than any other region in France. In over half of the resorts, temperatures ...

In order to improve our knowledge of the resources available in the Greater Paris area, and to further the development of near-surface geothermal energy, BRGM assessed the potential of near-surface ...

BRGM, the SIM, the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition, the Ministry of the Economy, and professional federations: A3M, Aluminium France and CSF present the map of the extraction industry ...

En Guyane française, malgré les précipitations importantes, l’accès à l’eau potable est un réel problème. Les raisons ne sont ...

Les éditions du BRGM, en collaboration avec les éditions Allary, publient un atlas inédit sur le sous-sol français. Il est ...

Le Conseil des géosciences sud-africain (CGS) et le BRGM ont signé un protocole d’accord visant à renforcer leur coopération ...

La situation des nappes reste majoritairement très dégradée en lien avec le déficit de pluie efficace du mois de septembre. La recharge ne s’est amorcée que sur 7% des points, impliquant une ...

On the heights of the Serre Chevalier ski resort in the Hautes-Alpes, a rock complex has just been dated at around 600 million years old. These are the oldest rocks discovered to date in the Western ...

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Très utilisées en France, les nappes d’eau souterraine dépendent de recharges cycliques. Pour pallier le manque d’eau en saison sèche, la recharge dirigée des nappes phréatiques par l’homme peut ...