Cities and Geology
Author : Robert Ferguson Legget
Publisher : New York ; Montreal : McGraw-Hill Book Company
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Robert Ferguson Legget
Publisher : New York ; Montreal : McGraw-Hill Book Company
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : David B. Williams
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0295746475
Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In Stories in Stone, he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood, and a Florida fort that has withstood three hundred years of attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone that has the consistency of a granola bar. Williams also weaves in the cultural history of stone, explaining why a white fossil-rich limestone from Indiana became the only building stone used in all fifty states; how in 1825, the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument led to America’s first commercial railroad; and why when the same kind of marble used by Michelangelo clad a Chicago skyscraper it warped so much after nineteen years that all 44,000 panels of it had to be replaced. This love letter to building stone brings to life the geology you can see in the structures of every city.
Author : Christopher J. Schuberth
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : Anthony Webster
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1498597963
The Foundation of Australia’s Capital Cities is the story of how the places chosen for Australia’s seven colonial capitals came to shape their unique urban character and built environments. Tony Webster traces the effects of each city’s geologically diverse coastal or riverine landform and the local natural materials that were available for construction, highlighting how the geology and original landforms resulted in development patterns that have persisted today.
Author : G. McCall
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 1996-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789054106470
This volume looks at the increasing demand for geoscientific input to planning urban land use, rectifying problems of decay and poor prior procedures, rehabilitating land after the closure of extractive and other industries, designing new constructions, and environmental assessment.
Author : Robert Ferguson Legget
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Engineering geology
ISBN : 081374105X
The nine papers in this volume cover the geology beneath Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Edmonton, Kansas City, New Orleans, New York City, Toronto, and St. Paul/Minneapolis, and present methods of data gathering that could be used in most cities.
Author : Jerry D. Grover (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Book of Mormon
ISBN : 9780986318900
An analysis of all geologic references in the Book of Mormon. Geologic parameters for Book of Mormon geographical models are established. Includes an analysis of the Mesoamerican geographic model for the Book of Mormon
Author : Dora P. Crouch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0195083245
Traditionally our understanding of ancient cities has been approached through archaeological, historical and literary sources, with little regard or understanding of geology or engineering.
Author : Giorgio Lollino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319090488
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of urban geology. Along with a rapidly growing world population, the wave of urban growth continues, causing cities to swell and new metropolitan centers to emerge. These global trends also open new ventures for underground city development. Engineering geology plays a major role in facing the increasing issues of the urban environment, such as: finding aggregates for construction works; providing adequate water supply and waste management; solving building problems associated to geological and geomorphological conditions; evaluating host rock conditions for underground constructions; preventing or mitigating geological and seismic hazards. Furthermore, this book illustrates recent advancements in sustainable land use planning, which includes conservation, protection, reclamation and landscape impact of open pit mining and alternative power generation. The Engineering Geology for Society and Territory volumes of the IAEG XII Congress held in Torino from September 15-19, 2014, analyze the dynamic role of engineering geology in our changing world and build on the four main themes of the congress: environment, processes, issues and approaches. The congress topics and subject areas of the 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes are: 1. Climate Change and Engineering Geology 2. Landslide Processes River Basins 3. Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources 4. Marine and Coastal Processes Urban Geology 5. Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation 6. Applied Geology for Major Engineering Projects 7. Education, Professional Ethics and Public Recognition of Engineering Geology 8. Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Author : M.J. Eggers
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1862399689
Developments in Engineering Geology is a showcase of the diversity in the science and practice of engineering geology. All branches of geology are applicable to solving engineering problems and this presents a wide frontier of scientific opportunity to engineering geology. In practice, diversity represents a different set of challenges with the distinctive character of the profession derived from the crossover between the disciplines of geology and engineering. This book emphasizes the importance of understanding the geological science behind the engineering behaviour of a soil or rock. It also highlights a continuing expansion in the practice areas of engineering geology and illustrates how this is opening new frontiers to the profession thereby introducing new knowledge and technology across a range of applications. This is initiating an evolution in the way geology is modelled in engineering, geohazard and environmental studies in modern and traditional areas of engineering geology.