Military aspects of hydrogeology
By: edited by E.P.F. Rose and J.D. Mather
Series: Geological Society special publication -- no. 362; Geological Society special publication -- no. 362.
Publisher: Geological Society
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781862393400
Subjects: Military geology; Hydrogeology; Military geography; History; Military bases; Water-supply
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Military aspects of hydrogeology: an introduction and overview / J.D. Mather, E.P.F. Rose; title: Crouching enemy, hidden ally: the decisive role of groundwater discharge features in two major British battles, Flodden 1513 and Prestonpans 1745 / P.L. Younger; title: Water supply to Britain's eastern coastal defences in the 18th century and the work of Sir Thomas Hyde Page (1746-1821) / J.D. Mather; title: Groundwater as a military resource: pioneering British military well boring and hydrogeology in World War I / E.P.F. Rose; title: Examples of the influence of groundwater on British military mining in Flanders, 1914-1917 / P. Doyle; title: Aspects of military hydrogeology and groundwater development by Germany and its allies in World War I / D. Willig, H. Hausler; title: Groundwater as a military resource: development of Royal Engineering boring sections and British military hydrogeology in World War II / E.P.F. Rose; title: War as a catalyst for change: groundwater studies in the Geological Survey of Great Britain before 1950 and the impact of two World Wars / J.D. Mather; title: Soil and water: research by the British Army's Committee on mud crossing performance of tracked armoured fighting vehicles in World War II / D.A. Greenwood; title: Aspects of German military geology and groundwater in World War II / D. Willig, H. Hausler; title: Basement hydrogeology and fortification of the Channel Islands: legacies of British and German military engineering / N.S. Robins, E.P.F. Rose, C.S. Cheney; title: Hydrological support to United States military operations, 1917-2010 / C.A. Gellasch; title: Hydrogeology and the Bundeswehr: water supply to German armed forces in Somalia, Kosovo and Afghanistan between 1993 and 2010 / D. Willig; title: Opportunity-driven hydrological model development in US Army research and development programs / C.W. Downer, F.L. Ogden, W.D. Martin, R.S. Harmon; title: Using computer simulation to explore the importance of hydrogeology in remote sensing for explosive threat detection / S.E. Howington, J.F. Peters, J.R. Ballard, Jr., O.J. Eslinger, J.R. Fairley, R.V. Kala, R.A. Goodson, S.J. Price, A.M. Hines, L.D. Wakeley; title: Effect of near-surface hydrology on soil strength and mobility / J.D. Priddy, E.S. Berney, IV, J.F. Peters; title: Development of cleanup technologies for the management of US military installations / J. Miller, C. Foran; title: Hydrogeology of British military sites: Project Aquatrine / L. McCaffrey, C. Bullock; title: Tension over equitable allocation water: estimating renewable groundwater resources beneath the West Bank and Israel / M.M. Mansour, D.W. Peach, A.G. Hughes, N.S. Robins.