Principles of Engineering Geology (A Halsted Press Book)

Attewell, P. B.; Farmer, I. W.

ISBN 10: 0470036419 / ISBN 13: 9780470036419

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1976

About this Item

Assumed first edition as no other date listed. Binding tight, interior clean other than stamp on ffep. Tan boards, bright gilt lettering on spine. Orange dj preserved in mylar, spine and flap folds faded. ".an indispensable reference source and ideal course book for both geologists and civil engineers." - from dj flap. Due to size, international and priority mailing may cost extra. 1045 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Principles of Engineering Geology (A Halsted Press Book)
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470036419
• ISBN 13: 9780470036419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • Engineering
  • Mining and Geology
  • Technical

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Synopsis

'Engineering geology' is one of those terms that invite definition. The American Geological Institute, for example, has expanded the term to mean 'the application of the geological sciences to engineering practice for the purpose of assuring that the geological factors affecting the location, design, construction, operation and mainten­ ance of engineering works are recognized and adequately provided for'. It has also been defined by W. R. Judd in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology as 'the application of education and experience in geology and other geosciences to solve geological problems posed by civil engineering structures'. Judd goes on to specify those branches of the geological or geo-sciences as surface (or surficial) geology, structural/fabric geology, geohydro­ logy, geophysics, soil and rock mechanics. Soil mechanics is firmly included as a geological science in spite of the perhaps rather unfortunate trends over the years (now happily being reversed) towards purely mechanistic analyses which may well provide acceptable solutions for only the simplest geology. Many subjects evolve through their subject areas from an interdisciplinary background and it is just such instances that pose the greatest difficulties of definition. Since the form of educational development experienced by the practitioners of the subject ulti­ mately bears quite strongly upon the corporate concept of the term 'engineering geology', it is useful briefly to consider that educational background.