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A borehole is any hole drilled or dug into the ground. The hole is usually deep, narrow and round. The material (soil and or rock) from the hole is collected and tested in a laboratory to find out the structure and type of the soil and or rock beneath the ground. A borehole...
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Landslide locations and extents help us locate where landslides have occurred. Ireland's location, terrain and climate result in landslides occurring mainly in areas with steep slopes where rock meets the surface and peat covers the terrain. Landslides have the potential to...
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Bedrock is the solid rock at or below the land surface. Over much of Ireland, the bedrock is covered by materials such as soil and gravel. The Bedrock map shows what the land surface of Ireland would be made up of if these materials were removed. As the bedrock is commonly...
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A national database of boreholes including locational and stratigraphic information. Boreholes must have a grid coordinate for every entry. Boreholes known to open file and boreholes unrecorded in open file are included, particularly boreholes drilled by the GSI. A number of...
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Bedrock outcrop polygons have been derived from digitising outcrop locations from scanned 19th Century GSI field maps. The data was derived from mapping at a scale of 1:10,560 (6 inches to one mile). Individual map sheets were geo-referenced to an index polygon and checked...
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Landslide susceptibility mapping using GIS mapping to map areas prone to landslides. Adopting a test methodology for systematic landslide susceptibility mapping for the whole of Ireland.