Geus

Danmarks og Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse (GEUS) (English: "Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland") is a Danish independent sector research institute under the Ministry of the Environment. It is an advising, researching and surveying institute in numerous fields, including Hydrogeology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Stratigraphy, Glaciology, Malmgeology, Maringeology, Mineralogy, Climatology, Environmental history, Air photo interpenetration, Geothermic energy and many more, primary limited, but not exclusive, to Denmark and Greenland.

GEUS works in close corporation with Geologisk Institut and Geologisk Museum, both part of University of Copenhagen.

It publishes a service paper called GHEXIS (Greenland Hydrocarbon Exploration Information Service) and a newsletter called MINEX (Greenland Mineral Exploration Newsletter) in co-operation with the Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum (Råstofdirektoratet), a secretariat for the Joint Committee on Mineral Resources under Greenland’s home rule. Both are also available online.

History

GEUS was created by the merging of "Danmarks Geologiske Undersøgelse" (DGU created 1888) and "Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse" (GGU created 1946). Technical it was a merge, however in protocol terms GGU was disbanded following law no. 408 of June 14 1995, that disbanded its law of existence, namely law no. 238 of June 14 1965. GGU was then merge into DGU, which changed name to DGGU and continued following its law of existence, namely law no. 864 of December 23 1987.

Following the new law about sector research institutes in Denmark (no. 1076 of December 20 1995) the official abbreviation became GEUS (Danmarks og Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse) replacing DGGU (Danmarks og Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse).