Geological Hazards in the UK: Their Occurrence, Monitoring and Mitigation – Engineering Group Working Party Report
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The UK is perhaps unique globally in that it presents the full spectrum of geological time, stratigraphy and associated lithologies within its boundaries. With this wide range of geological assemblages comes a wide range of geological hazards, whether they be geophysical (earthquakes, effects of volcanic eruptions, tsunami, landslides), geotechnical (collapsible, compressible, liquefiable, shearing, swelling and shrinking soils), geochemical (dissolution, radon and methane gas hazards) or georesource related (coal, chalk and other mineral extraction). An awareness of these hazards and the risks that they pose is a key requirement of the engineering geologist.
The Geological Society considered that a Working Party Report would help to put the study and assessment of geohazards into the wider social context, helping the engineering geologist to better communicate the issues concerning geohazards in the UK to the client and the public. This volume sets out to define and explain these geohazards, to detail their detection, monitoring and management and to provide a basis for further research and understanding.
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Geological Hazards in the UK: Their Occurrence, Monitoring and MitigationDavid Peter GilesDavid Peter GilesSearch for other works by this author on:
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Chapter 4 Landslide and slope stability hazard in the UKDavid Peter GilesDavid Peter GilesCGL (Card Geotechnics Ltd),4 Godalming Business Centre, Woolsack Way, Godalming, GU7 1XW,UKSearch for other works by this author on:
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Chapter 9 Peat hazards: compression and failureJeff WarburtonJeff WarburtonSearch for other works by this author on:
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Chapter 14 Geological hazards from salt mining, brine extraction and natural salt dissolution in the UKAnthony H. CooperAnthony H. CooperSearch for other works by this author on:
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Chapter 16 Geohazards caused by gypsum and anhydrite in the UK: including dissolution, subsidence, sinkholes and heaveAnthony H. CooperAnthony H. CooperSearch for other works by this author on:
