Title: Applied Quaternary research :
Authors: INQUA Symposium on Applied Quaternary Studies; Mulder, E. F. J. de.; Hageman, Bob P.
Date: 1989
Publisher: A.A. Balkema,
Physical description: xi, 185 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Contents: Using Quaternary stratigraphy to help locate a hazardous waste treatment site / A.J. Cooper, G.R. Funk & E.G. Anderson -- Contribution of Quaternary geology to planning and management of open pit coal mines / Mark M. Fenton, Mark R. Trudell, John G. Pawlowicz, Carolyn E. Sterenberg, Stephen R. Moran & Dennis J. Nikols -- Tunnelling in Quaternary and glacially influenced sediments in northwest Germany / Friedrich Grube & Alf Grube -- The application of Quaternary geology in coastal areas / Bob P. Hageman -- The acidification of soils and aquifers, the time factor, and the authorisation of geology as an environmental science / Lars-König Königsson -- Transportation corridors -- the role of Quaternary and engineering geology / D.E. Lawrence -- Quaternary deposits : suppliers of mineral raw materials and prerequisites for human development / Gerd W. Lüttig -- Thematic applied Quaternary maps : a profitable investment or expensive wallpaper? / Ed F.J. de Mulder -- The significance of origin for the identification of engineering problems in transported Quaternary soils / T.C. Partridge -- Shear-strength determination and stream-bank instability in loess-derived alluvium, West Tennessee, USA / Andrew Simon -- Fabric studies of ice-thrust shear zones as applied to problems in geotechnical engineering / Po C. Tsui, David M. Cruden & Stanley Thomson -- Quaternary geology and urban planning in Canada / Owen L. White -- Tunnelling in Quaternary and glacially influenced sediments -- results of engineering-geological investigations / K. Wüstenhagen.
Subject headings (LCSH): Geology, Stratigraphic--Quaternary--Congresses; Geology, Stratigraphic--Quaternary--Research--Congresses.