... to the built environment and other associated works, such as the Teton dam collapse in 1976, in Idaho, USA (Smalley, 1992). loess compaction Bulgaria Miller Jefferson careful site control collapsibility loess ground deposit collapse potential Engineering Geology problematic soil metastable...

... reinforcement Lam Ta Khong rock mass reservoir geomechanics quaternary deposit drainage tunnel construction Upstream Oil & Gas construction deformation soft ground rock mass classification deformation standard support pattern stiffness extensometer Engineering Geology excavation tunnel...

... geomorphological mapping and highway engineering design . Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, 8, pp 227-54. Geological Society of London. Fookes, P.G. (1986). Land evaluation and site assessment (hazard and risk Geological Society Engineering Geology Special Publication No.4, Ed. Culshaw, M.G. et al, pp 273...

... of soil mechanics and rock mechanics, engineering geology and other related disciplines to civil engineering construction, the extractive industries and the preservation and enhancement of the environment. Geotechnical engineering plays a key role in all civil engineering projects, since all construction...

... in particular. This has also led to interactionand collaborationbetween geology, engineering geology, geotechnics and civil engineering. As examples of Óthematic mapsÓ produced by SGU can be mentioned: maps for municipal planning including protection of groundwater (vulnerability), permeability, vulnerability...

... and understanding of geotechnics. For better and for worse, geotechnics are represented by three sister societies: The International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) and the International Association for Engineering Geology...

..., D05 and D06) provided by the Geotechnical Engineering Office (GEO) of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region (HKSAR). structural geology mechanism Reservoir Characterization chemical index Engineering Geology Artificial Intelligence weathered product major element Feldspar medium...

... of the Earth"s Crust SD RAS (Irkutsk), the Sub-Faculty of Engineering Geology and Geological Environment Protection of the Geology Department of the Moscow State University, and the Lanzhou Seismological Institute of the State Seismological Bureau of China were used. INTRODUCTION Investigations on loess...

.... Courses in the three pillar areas or in Engineering Geology were judged by survey respondents to be the most useful courses by far, and are the subject of the top five job categories. INTRODUCTION Geological Engineering education in Canada is at a cross-roads at the start of the new millennium...

... Rock mechanics in Brazil has been progressing hand in hand with engineering geology since the construction of large hydroelectric plants from the fifties on. There was great expansion in the sixties and seventies when the country started to meet an increasing demand for energy with the construction...

... in Geotechnical Engineering have been taught at Imperial College, London. These professionally oriented Courses provide specialist training in Engineering Geology, Engineering Rock Mechanics, Engineering Seismology, and Soil Mechanics. This paper describes the objectives, development and present organization...