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Series: GSA Reviews in Engineering Geology
Published: 01 January 1998
DOI: 10.1130/REG13-p75
EISBN: 9780813758138
... Abstract After World War II, the Military Geology Unit of the U.S. Geological Survey was transformed into the Military Geology Branch, which recruited about 150 younger scientists over time to continue the compilation of terrain intelligence on a global scale. Source materials were...
Series: GSA Reviews in Engineering Geology
Published: 01 January 1998
DOI: 10.1130/REG13-p67
EISBN: 9780813758138
... Abstract Lack of terrain data contributed significantly to the high costs of lives and operations during the Pacific campaign of World War II. After the war the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contracted with the Military Geology Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey to gather detailed terrain...
Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Published: 01 January 2012
DOI: 10.1144/SP362.12
EISBN: 9781862396104
... hydrogeologists once again, and a combination of civilian and uniformed hydrogeologists provided valuable support to the war effort, notably by terrain analysis. During the Cold War, the United States Geological Survey Military Geology Branch conducted military hydrogeological studies, and in 1985 the US Army...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 August 2012
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (2012) 45 (3): 349–367.
.... After 1945, MGU developed into a Military Geology Branch, responding to demands of wars cold and hot until 1972. The founding of MGU in 1942, primarily as a consequence of initiative by the US geological community rather than perceived military imperative, represented an early, innovative, home-based...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 November 2024
Russ. Geol. Geophys. (2024) 65 (11): 1383–1396.
... with focal depths from the first 100 m to 20 km. The focal area is not a subsequent activation along the same fault with the Chuya earthquake, but is located on a subparallel fault in the nodal region with its branching into three faults. The seismic activation of the Aigulak focal area is not an aftershock...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 December 2023
Earth Sciences History (2023) 42 (2): 291–326.
... ); in that of the Military Geology Section and later Military Geology Branch that succeeded it ( Terman 1998b ); in the titles of articles published in the USA in wartime or soon thereafter ( e.g. , Rich 1942 ; Erdmann 1944 ; Hack 1948 ; Hunt 1950 ; Kaye 1957 ); and, in direct or indirect translation, in articles...
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Book Chapter

Author(s)
Peter L. Guth
Series: GSA Reviews in Engineering Geology
Published: 01 January 1998
DOI: 10.1130/REG13-p1
EISBN: 9780813758138
... in peace-keeping and nation-building exercises. Although many geologists view military geology as a branch of engineering geology, the U.S. military does not include geologists in its force structure and gets geological assistance on an ad hoc basis. The army does, however, include organic terrain teams...
Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Published: 01 January 2012
DOI: 10.1144/SP362.6
EISBN: 9781862396104
... to the engineer branch of the Army. It contained over 350 geologists and associated technicians by the end of the war. Military geologists contributed advice on engineering geology and hydrogeology (principally on water supply, but also site drainage). They compiled a large number and wide range of groundwater...
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Author(s)
W. J. Mead
Published: 01 January 1941
DOI: 10.1130/1888Geology.571
EISBN: 9780813759401
... Abstract Economic Geology, the use of geologic science in the discovery, production, and economics of mineral resources, and Engineering Geology, the application of the science to the requirements of engineering, are two important branches of applied geology. There is, of course, much...
Journal Article
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 February 1997
AAPG Bulletin (1997) 81 (2): 339–340.
... into military service in 1942. After basic training in Indiana, he served two and one-half years in the 8th Air Force in England. He was discharged in 1945. After the war, he returned to the University of Kentucky and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in geology in 1946 and a Master of Science degree...
Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 June 1955
GSA Bulletin (1955) 66 (6): 731–762.
... the final eruption the crater floor subsided. In 1951 about 20,000,000 metric tons of material was erupted. MILITARY GEOLOGY BRANCH, U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, TOKYO, JAPAN (APO 500, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.) ; DEPT, or GEOLOGY, UNTV. OF ILLINOIS, URBANA, ILL. PUBLICATION AUTHORIZED BY THE DIRECTOR...
Journal Article
Published: 01 October 2003
The Canadian Mineralogist (2003) 41 (5): 1293–1294.
... Geology Branch. In 1954, he returned to Nevada as head of the Eureka County Project, then moved on to Utah to the Bingham Cu–Au Project (1956–1971), and finally to Saudi Arabia on an overseas project (1971–1978). Roberts retired from the USGS in 1981. Your reviewer cannot help but wonder if the title...
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Diagrammatic soil map of Sicily and the ‘toe’ of mainland Italy showing areas favourable for invasion, rated according to the most trafficable of soils. From an Allied Forces report on ‘Soil trafficability in military operations’ prepared by the Weather Information Branch of the US Army Air Force, but illustrative at convenient scale of the type of soil assessments generated by the Military Geology Unit. On 10 July 1943 the US 7th Army actually landed on the SW coast, at Licata and eastwards from Gela, and the British 8th Army landed on the SE coast, at localities south of Siracusa to Sicily’s SE corner. From Rose & Clatworthy (2007a), courtesy of the Institution of Royal Engineers.
Published: 01 August 2012
Fig. 3. Diagrammatic soil map of Sicily and the ‘toe’ of mainland Italy showing areas favourable for invasion, rated according to the most trafficable of soils. From an Allied Forces report on ‘Soil trafficability in military operations’ prepared by the Weather Information Branch of the US Army
Journal Article
Published: 01 October 2019
Earth Sciences History (2019) 38 (2): 357–370.
... the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had drawn the USA into the war, but ‘military geology’ did not feature in the names of British units with similar functions: the Strategic Branch of the Geological Survey of India (based in India, at Calcutta—present-day Kolkata, in West Bengal) and the Geological Section...
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Series: GSA Reviews in Engineering Geology
Published: 01 January 2014
DOI: 10.1130/2014.4122(01)
EISBN: 9780813758220
... postwar policy (Terman, 1998a) and appraised the contribution of German geologists to the strong German resistance to Allied aerial attack during the last years of the war (e.g., Eckel, 1945 ). Once the war was concluded, the MGU continued in active service as the USGS Military Geology Branch (MGB) until...
Book Chapter

Author(s)
Edward P.F. Rose
Series: GSA Reviews in Engineering Geology
Published: 01 January 2014
DOI: 10.1130/2014.4122(03)
EISBN: 9780813758220
... ( Häusler, 2003 ). As described in a comprehensive account by Häusler (2000) , in 1916 a geological organization as such was formed within the German Army, under the auspices of its (essentially geographical) Mapping and Survey branch. A military geology unit was attached to each of 28 Survey units...
Journal Article
Published: 01 April 2023
Earth Sciences History (2023) 42 (1): 1–40.
... into aspects of Quaternary geology ( Turner and Gibbard 1996 ). Also in 1943, but in June, a Strategic Branch was developed within the Geological Survey of India to provide military geological information and advice to the India and South East Asia Commands ( Bradshaw 1945 ; Rose 2005 ). It was based...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 October 2008
Earth Sciences History (2008) 27 (2): 242–265.
... Office ( Reichspatentamt ) were transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration, now held in College Park, Maryland. There the relevant documents are now catalogued within flats 20 and 23 of Record Group 57, line sequences 72 and 73, under the title: “Military Geology Branch: German...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 April 2021
Earth Sciences History (2021) 40 (1): 130–157.
...Edward P. F. Rose ABSTRACT Military applications of geology became apparent within the United Kingdom during the nineteenth century, and were developed during the First World War and more extensively during the Second, incidentally by some officers with links to Canada. In the nineteenth century...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 September 1948
AAPG Bulletin (1948) 32 (9): 1691–1711.
... may be generalized into the following categories: (1) lack of liaison between organized geology and the Armed Services prior to World War II; (2) consequent lack of understanding by the Services of the useful applications of geology (geologists) to military activities at both operational and planning...
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