| Description |
1 online resource (271 p.) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Geology Ser. ; v.12 |
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Routledge Library Editions: Geology Ser
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| Contents |
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Content -- List of tables -- Introduction -- 1 Topographic survey -- 1.1 Conversion of apparent slant distances to true horizontal and vertical distances -- 1.2 Correction for temperature in barometric (aneroid or altimeter) surveying -- 2 Gmeaopmpinogrph ological mapping -- 2.1 Basic morphological mapping symbols -- 2.2 Geomorphological (genetic) mapping symbols -- 2.3 Symbols for more detailed mapping -- 3 Slope profiling -- 3.1 Continuous slope profiling |
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3.2 Particular methods of slope survey -- 4 Mapping landscape materials -- 4.1 Geological mapping -- 4.2 Logging sedimentary sequences -- 4.3 Conversion between true and apparent dips -- 4.4 Calculation of stratigraphic thickness -- 5 Geophysical methods of subsurface investigation -- 5.1 The seismic refraction method -- 5.2 Time-distance plots for various simple geological structures -- 5.3 Nomograms for seismic calculations -- 5.4 Seismic formulae -- 5.5 Corrections used in refraction analysis -- 5.6 A rapid method for determining the depth to bedrock beneath superficial deposits |
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5.7 The resistivity method -- 5.8 Electrode configurations -- 5.9 Interpretation of resistivity sounding curves -- 5.10 Resistivity profiling -- 5.11 Overburden surveys -- 5.12 Electrical properties of Earth materials -- 6 The description of landscape-forming materials -- 6.1 Rock identification -- 6.2 Rock mass description -- 6.3 Field methods for determining rock material strength -- 6.4 Soil description -- 6.5 Sediment and sedimentary rock description -- 7 Fluvial processes -- 7.1 The velocity-area method -- 7.2 Estimation of resistance coefficients in the |
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7.3 Discharge measurement by dilution gauging -- 7.4 Gauging structures -- 7.5 Scour and sediment transport -- 7.6 Relationships between bedforms, flow characteristics and particle sizes -- 7.7 Conductivity measurements in water quality analysis -- 8 Glacial processes -- 8.1 Choosing and marking fixed points for glacier surveys -- 8.2 Mapping snow and ice -- 8.3 Recommendations for placing stakes on a glacier surface -- 8.4 Measurement of glacier surface velocity -- 8.5 Determination of the strain rate at the surface of a glacier -- 8.6 Accumulation measurements -- 8.7 Ram hardness of snow |
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8.8 Ablation measurements -- 8.9 Meteorological observations -- 8.10 Water discharge measurements -- 9 Aeolian processes -- 9.1 Relationships concerning wind velocity, drag velocity, sediment entrainment and transport -- 9.2 Aeolian deposits and depositional landforms -- 10 Coastal processes -- 10.1 The LEO scheme of the US Corps of Engineers -- 10.2 Aspects of wind and wave motion -- 10.3 Sediment and salinity -- 11 Slope processes -- 11.1 Identification and classification of slope mass-movement processes -- 11.2 Slope stability |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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11.3 Field estimation of material properties significant to slope stability |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gardiner, V
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| ISBN |
9781000045994 |
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1000045994 |
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