Geological hazards in the UK : their occurrence, monitoring and mitigation Engineering Group working party report / edited by D.P. Giles, Card Geotechnics Ltd, UK, and J.S. Griffiths, University of plymouth, UK.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giles, D. P. (David P.), editor.

Griffiths, James S., Dr., editor.

Series:

Geological Society engineering geology special publication ; 29.

Geological Society engineering geology special publication ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology--Great Britain.

Geology.

Hazardous geographic environments--Great Britain.

Hazardous geographic environments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 490 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Geological Hazards in the UK

Place of Publication:

London : The Geological Society, 2020.

Summary:

The UK is perhaps unique globally in that it presents the full spectrum of geological time, stratigraphy and associated lithologies within its boundaries. With this wide range of geological assemblages comes a wide range of geological hazards, whether they be geophysical (earthquakes, effects of volcanic eruptions, tsunami, landslides), geotechnical (collapsible, compressible, liquefiable, shearing, swelling and shrinking soils), geochemical (dissolution, radon and methane gas hazards) or georesource related (coal, chalk and other mineral extraction). An awareness of these hazards and the risks that they pose is a key requirement of the engineering geologist. The Geological Society considered that a Working Party Report would help to put the study and assessment of geohazards into the wider social context, helping the engineering geologist to better communicate the issues concerning geohazards in the UK to the client and the public. This volume sets out to define and explain these geohazards, to detail their detection, monitoring and management and to provide a basis for further research and understanding.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

Contents:

Articles

Chapter 1 Introduction to Geological Hazards in the UK: Their Occurrence, Monitoring and Mitigation

Chapter 2 Seismic hazard

Chapter 3 Tsunami hazard with reference to the UK

Chapter 4 Landslide and slope stability hazard in the UK

Chapter 5 Debris flows

Chapter 6 Collapsible Soils in the UK

Chapter 7 Quick clay behaviour in sensitive Quaternary marine clays - a UK perspective

Chapter 8 Swelling and shrinking soils

Chapter 9 Peat hazards: compression and failure

Chapter 10 Periglacial geohazards in the UK

Chapter 11 Coal mining subsidence in the UK

Chapter 12 Subsidence - chalk mining

Chapter 13 Hazards associated with mining and mineral exploitation in Cornwall and Devon, SW England

Chapter 14 Geological hazards from salt mining, brine extraction and natural salt dissolution in the UK

Chapter 15 Dissolution - carbonates

Chapter 16 Geohazards caused by gypsum and anhydrite in the UK: including dissolution, subsidence, sinkholes and heave

Chapter 17 Mining-induced fault reactivation in the UK

Chapter 18 Radon gas hazard

Chapter 19 Methane gas hazard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5231-6429-8

1-78620-464-9

9781786209429