Soil and rock description in engineering practice / / David Norbury, consultant, director, David Norbury Limited, Reading, UK, Honorary Professor in Engineering Geology, University of Sussex, UK

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465878403321
• Autore: Norbury David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dunbeath, Scotland, UK : , : Whittles Publishing, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-5231-0179-2; 1-84995-248-5
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 624.151
• Soggetti: Soils; Soil science; Rocks; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface ; Definitions ; 1 Introduction ; 1.1 What are we describing and why?; 1.2 Description compared with classification; 1.3 Communication in description; 1.4 Soil meets rock ; 1.5 Health and Safety in description ; 2 History of Description in Codification ; 2.1 Prior to 1970 ; 2.2 The period 1970-1981; 2.3 The period 1981-1999 and the first BS 5930 ; 2.4 Rock weathering; 2.5 1999 and the second BS 5930 ; 2.6 The period since 1999 ; 2.7 Multiple usage of defined terms; 2.7.1 Clay and silt terminology; 2.7.2 Secondary constituent terms; 2.7.3 Loose and dense; 2.7.4 Compactness of silt2.7.5 Rock strength ; 2.7.6 Rock weathering; 2.7.7 Comparison of descriptive technology ; 3 Systematic Description ; 3.1 Standard word order ; 3.2 Standard word order in US practice ; 3.3 The multiple sentence approach ; 4 Description of Materials ; 4.1 Principal soil and rock types ; 4.2 Size fractions ; 4.3 Description procedure using flow chart; 4.4 Very coarse soils; 4.5 Coarse soils; 4.6 Particle shape ; 4.7 The coarse soil/fine soil boundary ; 4.8 Fine soils ; 4.9 Classification of plasticity of fine soils; 4.10 The soil/rock ; boundary; 4.11 Rock naming; 4.11.1 General naming of rocks 4.11.2 Description of coal ; 4.11.3 Naming of carbonate sediments ; 4.11.4 Naming of volcaniclastic sediments ; 4.12 Grain size in rocks ; 5 Relative Density and Strength ; 5.1 Relative density in coarse soils; 5.2 Consistency of fine soils; 5.3 Strength: shear or unconfined ; 6 Structure, Fabric and Texture; 6.1 Structure; 6.2 Fabric ; 6.3 Texture ; 7 Colour ; 8 Secondary and Tertiary Fractions ; 8.1 Secondary fractions; 8.1.1 Secondary fractions in very coarse soils; 8.1.2 Very coarse particles as a secondary fraction; 8.1.3 Secondary fractions in coarse soils; 8.1.4 Fine soil as a secondary constituent 8.1.5 Secondary fractions in fine soils; 8.1.6 Multiple secondary fractions; 8.2 Tertiary fractions; 8.3 Description of widely graded soils ; 8.4 Description and classification of particle size grading ; 8.5 Other information ; 9 Geological Unit; 10 Weathering ; 10.1 Weathering of soils; 10.2 Rock weathering; 10.3 Approach 1: description of weathering; 10.4 Approaches 2 and 3: classifications for homogeneous stronger rocks ; 10.5 Approach 4: classification for hetrogeneous weather rocks ; 10.6 Material specific weathering schemes; 10.7 Approach 5: special cases 10.7.1 Chalk ; 10.7.2 Karstic limestone ; 10.7.3 Tropical weathering ; 11 Discontinuity Logging ; 11.1 Types of discontinuity ; 11.2 Discontinuity description ; 11.3 Orientation; 11.4 Spacing ; 11.5 Persistence and termination; 11.6 Surface form ; 11.7 Wall strength; 11.8 Aperture and infilling; 11.9 Seepage ; 11.10 Discontinuity sets ; 12 Discontinuity State Recording ; 12.1 Total core recovery ; 12.2 Solid core recovery ; 12.3 Rock quality designation; 12.4 Fracture spacing ; 13 Low Density Soils; 13.1 Organic soils; 13.1.1 Topsoil; 13.1.2 Peat; 13.2 Volcanic soils or rocks
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a revised and updated version of the highly successful first edition. It continues to provide invaluable practical guidance in carrying out engineering geological logging of soil and rock samples and exposures in the field.

The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the struggle against Atlantic slavery / / Matt D. Childs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956319803321
• Autore: Childs Matt D. <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006
• ISBN: 979-88-908808-3-3; 1-4696-0607-0; 0-8078-7741-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Collana: Envisioning Cuba
• Disciplina: 306.3/62097291
• Soggetti: Slavery - Cuba; Slave rebellions - Cuba; Slavery - America - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-287) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: worse than Aponte -- The present time period is very delicate: Cuban slavery and the changing Atlantic world, 1750-1850 -- Nothing worse in the world than to be a slave: slaves and free people of color in early nineteenth-century Cuba -- Organizing the rebellion: the overlapping worlds of the militia and the Cabildos de Nacion -- Burn the plantations: the Cuban Aponte Rebellion(s) of 1812 -- Vanquish the arrogance of our enemies: emancipation rumors and rebellious royalism -- Conclusion: plaques of loyalty: the legacy of the Aponte Rebellion -- Appendix: Biographical database of the Aponte rebels.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1812, a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. This title provides an analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial, and Atlantic World contexts.