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Book Review |
Moore, D. & Huyr, O. (eds). Balkema, Rotterdam, 1998. 387 hardback, 6 vols, 5000pp. ISBN 90-5410-990-4.
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The proceedings are published in six volumes, although the sixth was not available at the time of this review. The first five volumes are divided into eight sections according to their subject matter: special session on Canadian geology (4 papers); new developments in site investigation (72 papers); engineering geology and natural hazards (121 papers); engineering geology and the environment (65 papers); construction materials (28 papers); case histories and developments in surface workings (76 papers); case histories and developments in underground workings (40 papers); coastal and offshore engineering geology (12 papers). Thus there is a good spread of information across the broad spectrum of engineering geology. Papers include overviews, descriptions of new methods, reassessment or development of existing methods and country or site specific case studies. It is good to see that developments in the use of geophysics in engineering geology in site investigation and other applications are well represented. Papers on seismic and slope instability dominate the engineering geology of natural hazards and provide much interesting information on case histories, causes and hazard assessment. Other hazards considered include mining, karst, flooding and erosion. The papers concerned with the environment are mainly focused on landfill and pollution from both the planning and design points of view.
The geographical spread of information over the world is good with some
58 different countries encompassed by the titles of the papers.
Countries that are particularly well represented are Canada, Italy,
Japan, China, Brazil, Greece, Great Britain, Russia, South Africa,
Slovakia, the United States of
