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Echantillon poli de minerai rubanné de zinc provenant de la mine de Bois-Madame (Gard, 1982).
Echantillon poli de minerai rubanné de zinc provenant de la mine de Bois-Madame (Gard, 1982).
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    • Subsurface, a common good research program
    • Area 1 : Quantifying future national demand
    • Area 2. Characterizing potential
    • Area 3. Analyze the stakes and positions of stakeholders with regard to potential underground uses, legal frameworks and environmental impacts.
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    • Anticipating the future of French subsoil use (ANTICIP)
    • Dynamic modeling (DyMod)
    • Technical and economic forecasting (TAEF)
    • Digital Earth
    • Innovative and sustainable technologies (InnovTech)
    • Environmental assessment and life cycle thinking (LCA-SUB)
    • Towards the politicization and requalification of the subsoil (VERTIQUAL)
    • Justice Pathways for Extractives and Critical Minerals (JPEC)
  • Regional projects
    Regional projects
    • Deep geothermal energy in the Rhine Graben
    • Paris Basin - The resources and uses of the urban subsurface (S-PASS)
    • French Guiana (GOYAVES)
    • Geology of the Aquitaine Basin for the energy transition (AquiBEAT)
    • Massif Central contribution to current transitions
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Amas de bauxite dans un paléokarst (Occitanie, 2017).

Subsurface: a common good

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Journée scientifique 2026
29
jan
2026
3 rue Michel Ange, 75016 Paris.
Seminar
2026 annual scientific conference (in French)
La journée scientifique 2026 du programme se déroulera le 29 janvier au siège national du CNRS, à Paris.

News

Carte géologique incluant les lieux de provenance des données de la BSS (Banque du sous-sol) du BRGM, de la SGp et de la RATP.
News
Beneath Greater Paris, an unprecedented mapping of the urban subsurface
20 January 2026
Une connaissance du sous-sol guyanais à actualiser.
News
Updating Knowledge of the Guyanese Subsoil
18 November 2025
Sur la piste de Paul Isnard du côté de Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (Guyane) : quand l'image révèle les relations des sociétés guyanaises à leur sous-sol.
News
When Images reveal how guianese societies relate to their subsurface
14 November 2025
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Scientific papers

In-soil hydrogen concentration monitoring using MONHyTOR: application for natural hydrogen exploration
In-soil hydrogen concentration monitoring using MONHyTOR: application for natural hydrogen exploration
This work is part of the regional project in Aquitaine basin (AquiBEAT)
Transformer les savoirs tacites des geosciences en pa-trimoine collectif : stratégies et perspectives
Transforming tacit knowledge in geosciencesinto collective heritage: strategies and perspective
This work is part of the Digital Earth project.
Démantèlement de la chaîne varisque d’Europe de l’Ouest et fragmentation précoce de la Pangée : le rôle clé de la subduction de la Paléotéthys
West European Variscan Belt dismantling and early fragmentation of Pangea: The key role of the Paleotethys subduction
This work is part of the regional project in Massif central.
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Amphibolite et veines acides tardives de la Pointe Buzaré

Key figures

    • 71.40
      M€ in subsidies over 7 years

    • 3.00
      main research themes

    • 13.00
      targeted research projects, involving 8 cross-cutting projects and 5 regional project-research sites.

    • 5.00
      types of subsurface resources and uses studied

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