GLACIAL GEOLOGY. AN INTRODUCTION FOR ENGINEERS AND EARTH SCIENTISTS

The early chapters of this book describe depositional processes at modern glacier and ice sheet margins relating sediments and landforms in recurring "landsystems". Later chapters portray the distribution of these landsystems in Pleistocene glaciated terrains of the mid-latitudes, focusing on commonly encountered problems concerned with stratigraphic and sedimentological investigations, subsurface exploration methods and engineering testing, geotechnical properties, mapping, mineral exploration, groundwater assessment, waste disposal and hydrogeological investigations, foundation engineering and design, and construction problems relating to roads and dams. (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Headington Hill Hall
  Oxford OX30BW,    
• Authors:
  • Eyles, N
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 409 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Foundation engineering; Foundations; Geological surveying; Geology; Geotechnical engineering; Glaciers; Groundwater; Hydrology; Mapping; Minerals; Rock mechanics; Rocks; Soil mechanics; Soils; Terrain; Textbooks; Waste disposal
• Old TRIS Terms: Subsurface explorations
• ITRD Terms: 3377: Foundation; 4053: Geology; 4383: Ground water; 4332: Hydrology; 4154: Rock; 5757: Rock mechanics; 4156: Soil; 5755: Soil mechanics; 4035: Terrain; 8526: Textbook
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00452480
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1986 12:00AM