Geomorphology for Engineers

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team Aug 8, 2005

Landmark publication - definitive book for engineers and geomorphologists: Geomorphology for Engineers.

Landmark publication - definitive book for engineers and geomorphologists: Geomorphology for Engineers.

Edited by Professor PG Fookes, Consulting Engineering Geologist; Senior Research Associate, Oxford University; Dr Mark Lee, Consulting Engineering Geomorphologist, York; and Dr G Milligan, Director, Geotechnical Consulting Group, London.

Most engineering companies employ geomorphologists on their full-time staff and all require a text that guides them to the core of the subject.

This book fulfils that need.

It presents a worldwide view of geomorphology for engineers and other professionals on the near-surface engineering problems associated with the various landscapes.

This new and completely revised editon has additional chapters with an improved format and is broadly divided into three parts.

Although geomorphological landforms and processes exert a strong influence on surface engineering works, comparatively little systematic information on geomorphology is available to engineers - UNTIL NOW.

The first part is concerned with the major factors which control the materials, form and processes on the Earth's surfaces.

The second part deals with the geomorphological processes which help shape land surfaces and influence their engineering characteristics and the final part covers environments and landscapes, including some specialist chapters.

Each chapter is written by leading authorities on the subject and is both self-contained and referenced with other chapters as appropriate to make a balanced whole.

Contents : Introduction to Engineering Geomorphology.

Part I - Controls: Climate and Weathering; Sedimentology; Tectonics; Stratigraphy; The Quaternary; Engineering Behaviour of Soils and Rocks.

Part II - Geomorphological Processes: Landslides; Active Tectonic Environments and Seismic Hazards; Rivers; Soil Erosion; Subsidence.

Part III - Environments and landscapes: Glacial environments; Periglacial Forms and Processes; Temperate Environments; Hot drylands; Savanna; Hot Wetlands; Mountain Environments; Estuaries and Deltas; Coastal Environments; Continental Shelves; Volcanic Landscapes; Karst Terrains; Loess; Chalk Landscapes; Urban Geomorphology.

Appendices.

Readership:.

This outstanding work will be of great practical value and reference for practitioners and academics in civil, geotechnical, foundation engineering, soil and rock mechanics, and engineering geology; practitioners, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates in geomorphology, civil engineering (including road and rail construction, river, canal and coastal engineering), geohydrology; and practising physical geographers and geologists and postgraduates in these disciplines.

ISBN 1-870325-03-6 240 x 170 mm 874pp over 600 illustrations cloth GBP100.