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Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter T. Bobrowsky, Brian Marker
| Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter T. Bobrowsky, Brian Marker |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1200 p. 750 illus., 50 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 624.151 |
| Collana | Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Geotechnical engineering
Engineering geology Engineering—Geology Foundations Hydraulics Soil science Soil conservation Environmental engineering Biotechnology Geography Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics Soil Science & Conservation Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology Geography, general |
| ISBN | 3-319-12127-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | AASHTO Soil Classification System -- Ablation till -- Aerial photography -- Aeromagnetic surveying -- Aggregate -- Aggregate tests -- Anchoring -- Angle of internal friction -- Aquifer -- Aquitard -- Artesian well -- Atterberg limits -- Avalanche -- Bearing capacity -- Bishop sand sampler -- Borehole -- Borehole vane test -- Braced excavations -- Breakwater -- Building stone -- Cantilever. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910341856103321 |
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Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology / / edited by Peter T. Bobrowsky, Brian Marker
| Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology / / edited by Peter T. Bobrowsky, Brian Marker |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (631 illus., 491 illus. in color. eReference.) |
| Disciplina | 624.151 |
| Collana | Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Geotechnical engineering
Engineering geology Soil science Environmental engineering Biotechnology Bioremediation Geomorphology Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences Geoengineering Soil Science Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology |
| ISBN |
1-78785-330-6
3-319-73568-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Abrasiveness -- Accreditation -- Acidity (pH) -- Acid mine drainage -- Aeolian processes -- Aerial photography -- Aeromagnetic survey -- Aggregate -- Aggregate tests -- Alkali silica reactivity -- Alluvial environments -- Alteration -- Anchoring -- Angle/area of influence -- Angle of internal friction -- Aquifer -- Aquitard -- Armour stone -- Artesian -- Artificial ground -- Atterburg Limits -- Avalanche -- Backfill -- Beach replenishment -- Bearing capacity -- Bedrock -- Biological weathering -- Blasting -- Borehole -- Borehole investigations -- Boulders -- Breakwaters -- Bridges -- Brownfield sites -- Building/dimension stone -- Bulk modulus -- California bearing ratio -- Cambering -- Cantilever -- Capillarity -- Cap rock -- Casagrande test -- Casing -- Catchment -- Cement -- Characterization of soils -- Chemical weathering -- Chezy formula -- Classification of rocks -- Classification of soils -- Clay -- Climate change -- Coal -- Coastal environments -- Cobbles -- Coefficient of uniformity -- Coffer dams -- Cohesive soils -- Collapsing soils -- Compaction -- Compression -- Compressive soils -- Concrete -- Conductivity -- Cone penetrometer -- Consolidation -- Contamination -- Corestones -- Corrosion -- Cross-Section -- Crushed rock -- Current action -- Cut and cover -- Cut and fill -- Cut off trench -- Dams -- Darcy’s Law -- Deformation -- Demolition -- Density -- Deposition -- Desert environments -- Designing site investigations -- Dessication -- Deviatoric stress -- Dewatering -- Diagenesis -- Dilatancy -- Dispersivity -- Drainage -- Drilling -- Drilling hazards -- Durability -- Dyke -- Dynamic compaction/compression -- Earthquake -- Earthquake intensity -- Earthquake magnitude -- Effective stress -- Elasticity -- Embankments -- Engineering geological mapping -- Engineering geology -- Engineering geomorphological mapping -- Engineering geomorphology -- Engineering properties -- Environmental assessment -- Environments -- Equipotential lines -- Erosion -- Ethics -- Evaporites -- Excavation -- Expansive soils -- Extensometer -- Facies -- Factor of safety -- Failure -- Faults -- Fills -- Filtration -- Flooding -- Fluidization -- Fluid withdrawal -- Fluvial environments -- Foundations -- Gabions -- Gases -- Geochemistry -- Geological hazards -- Geological structures -- Geology -- Geophysical methods -- Geostatic stress -- Geotechnical engineering -- Geotextiles -- Geothermal energy -- GIS -- Glacial environments -- Gradation/grading -- Gravel -- Ground preparation -- Ground shaking -- Groundwater -- Groundwater rebound -- Grout/grouting -- Hazard -- Hazard assessment -- Health and safety -- Hooke’s Law -- Hydraulic action -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Hydrocompaction -- Hydrogeology -- Hydrology -- Hydrothermal alteration -- IAEG -- IAH -- Igneous rocks -- Inclinometer -- Induced seismicity -- Infiltration -- Infrastructure -- InSAR -- Instrumentation -- ISRM -- ISSMGE -- Jacking test -- Jetties -- Karst -- Kozeny-Carmen equation -- Lacustrine environments -- Landfill -- Landforms -- Land use -- Landslides -- Laplace equation -- Lateral pressure -- Levees -- LiDAR -- Limestone -- Liners -- Liquefaction -- Liquid limit -- Loess -- Logging -- Manning formula -- Marine environments -- Mass movement -- Mechanical properties -- Metamorphic rocks -- Mine closure -- Mineralization -- Mining -- Mining hazards -- Modelling -- Modulus of deformation -- Modulus of elasticity -- Mohr circle -- Mohr-Coulomb failure envelope -- Monitoring -- Mountain environments -- Near shore structures -- Neutral pressure -- Non-cohesive soils -- Normal stress -- Organic soils -- Peels -- Percolation -- Permafrost -- Petrographic analysis -- Physical weathering -- Piezometer -- Photogrammetry -- Pipes/pipelines -- Plasticity index -- Plastic limit -- Poisson’s ratio -- Pore pressure -- Positive pressure -- Probability -- Professional practice -- Pressure -- Quick clay -- Quick sand -- Reclamation -- Reduced stress -- Remote sensing -- Reservoirs -- Residual soils -- Retaining structures -- Risk assessment -- Risk mapping -- Rock bolts -- Rock field tests -- Rock laboratory tests -- Rock mass classification -- Rock mechanics -- Rock properties -- Run off -- Sabkha -- Saline soils -- Sand -- Saturation -- Sea level -- Sedimentary rocks -- Sediments -- Shale -- Shear modulus -- Shear strength -- Shear stress -- Shear zone -- Shotcrete -- Silt -- Sinkholes -- Site investigation -- Slurry trenches -- Soil field tests -- Soil laboratory tests -- Soil mechanics -- Soil nailing -- Soil properties -- Stabilization -- Strain -- Strength -- Stress -- Subsidence -- Subsurface exploration -- Surface rupture -- Surveying -- Swelling/shrinkage of clays -- Tailings -- Tension scars -- Testing -- Thermistor -- Tiltmeter -- Tropical environments -- Tunnels -- Vegetation cover -- Velocity ratio -- Vibrations -- Voids -- Volcanic environments -- Waste -- Waste management -- Water -- Water testing -- Wells -- Young’s modulus. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299391903321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 | ||
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Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards / / edited by Peter T. Bobrowsky
| Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards / / edited by Peter T. Bobrowsky |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (479 illus., 336 illus. in color. eReference.) |
| Disciplina | 363.3403 |
| Collana | Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Natural disasters
Geomorphology Earth sciences Physical geography Natural Hazards Earth Sciences Physical Geography |
| ISBN |
1-78539-643-9
1-4020-4399-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | AA-LAVA -- Accelerometer -- Acid Rain -- Adaptation -- Airphoto and Satellite Imagery -- Albedo -- Antecedent Conditions -- Arsenic in Groundwater -- Asteroid -- Asteroid Impact -- Asteroid Impact Mitigation -- Asteroid Impact Predictions -- Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time (ALERT) -- Avalanches -- Aviation (Hazards to) -- Avulsion -- Base Surge -- Beach Nourishment (Replenishment) -- Beaufort Wind Scale -- Biblical Events -- Body Wave -- Breakwaters -- Building Code -- Building Failure -- Buildings, Structures, and Public Safety -- Calderas -- Casualties Following Natural Hazards -- Challenges to Agriculture -- Civil Protection and Crisis Management -- Classification of Natural Disasters -- Climate Change -- Cloud Seeding -- Coal Fire (Underground) -- Coastal Erosion -- Coastal Zone Risk Management -- Cognitive Dissonance -- Collapsing Soil Hazards -- Comet -- Communicating Emergency Information -- Community Management of Natural Hazards -- Complexity Theory -- Concrete Structures -- Convergence -- Coping Capacity -- Cost-Benefit Analysis of Natural Hazard Mitigation -- Costs (Economic) of Natural Hazards and Disasters -- Creep -- Critical Incident Stress Syndrome -- Critical Infrastructure -- Cryological Engineering -- Cultural Heritage and Natural Hazards -- Damage and the Built Environment -- Debris Avalanche -- Debris Flow -- Deep-seated Gravitational Slope Deformation -- Desertification -- Disaster Diplomacy -- Disaster Relief -- Disaster Research and Policy, History -- Disaster Risk Management -- Disaster Risk Reduction -- Disasters -- Dispersive Soil Hazards -- Doppler Weather Radar -- Dose Rate -- Drought -- Dust Bowl -- Dust Devil -- Dust Storm -- Dvorak Classification of Hurricanes -- Early Warning Systems -- Earthquake -- Earthquake Damage -- Earthquake Prediction and Forecasting -- Earthquake Resistant Design -- Economic Valuation of Life -- Economics of Disasters -- Education and Training for Emergency Preparedness -- Elastic Rebound Theory -- Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) -- El Niño/Southern Oscillation -- Emergency Management -- Emergency Mapping -- Emergency Planning -- Emergency Shelter -- Epicenter -- Epidemiology of Disease in Natural Disasters -- Erosion -- Erosivity -- Eruption Types (Volcanic Eruptions) -- Evacuation -- Expansive Soils and Clays -- Expert (Knowledge-Based) Systems for Disaster Management -- Exposure to Natural Hazards -- Extensometers -- Extinction -- Extreme Value Theory -- Eyjafjallajökull Eruptions 2010 -- Fault -- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) -- Fetch -- Fire and Firestorms -- Flash Flood -- Flood Deposits -- Flood Hazard and Disaster -- Flood Protection -- Flood Stage -- Floodplain -- Floodway -- Fog Hazard Mitigation -- Fog Hazards -- Föhn -- Forest and Range Fires -- Frequency and Magnitude of Events -- Frost Hazard -- Fujita Tornado Scale -- Fumarole -- Galeras Volcano, Colombia -- Gas-Hydrates -- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Natural Hazards -- Geographic Information Technology -- Geohazards -- Geological/Geophysical Disasters -- Glacier Hazards -- Global Change and its Implications for Natural Disasters -- Global Dust -- Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction -- Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Natural Hazards -- Global Seismograph Network (GSN) -- Haiti Earthquake 2010: Psychosocial Impacts -- Harmonic Tremor -- Hazard -- Hazard and Risk Mapping -- Hazardousness of a Place -- Heat Waves -- High-Rise Buildings in Natural Disaster -- Historical Events -- Hospitals in Disaster -- Human Impacts of Hazards -- Humanity as an Agent of Natural Disasters -- Hurricane (Typhoon, Cyclone) -- Hurricane Katrina -- Hydrocompaction Subsidence -- Hydrograph, Flood -- Hydrometeorological Hazards -- Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 -- Hypocenter -- Ice and Icebergs -- Ice Storms -- Impact Airblast -- Impact Ejecta -- Impact Fireball -- Impact Firestorms -- Impact Tsunamis -- Impact Winter -- Inclinometers -- Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 -- Induced Seismicity -- Information and Communication Technology -- Insect Hazards -- Insurance -- Integrated Emergency Management System -- Intensity Scales -- International Strategies for Disaster Reduction (IDNDR and ISDR) -- Internet, World Wide Web and Natural Hazards -- Isoseismal -- Jökulhlaups -- Karst Hazards -- Krakatoa (Krakatau) -- Lahar -- Land Degradation -- Land Subsidence -- Land Use, Urbanization, and Natural Hazards -- Landsat Satellite -- Landslide -- Landslide Dam -- Landslide Impacts -- Landslide Inventory -- Landslide Triggered Tsunami, Displacement Wave -- Landslide Types -- Land-Use Planing -- Lateral Spreading -- Lava -- Levee -- Lightning -- Liquefaction -- Livelihoods and Disasters -- Loess -- Macroseismic Survey -- Magma -- Magnitude Measures -- Marginality -- Marine Hazards -- Mass Media and Natural Disasters -- Mass Movement -- Megacities and Natural Hazards -- Mega-Fires in Greece (2007) -- Mercalli, Giuseppe (1850-1914) -- Meteorite -- Methane Release from Hydrate -- Mining Subsidence Induced Fault Reactivation -- Misconceptions About Natural Disaster -- Mitigation -- Modified Mercalli (MM) Scale -- Monitoring Natural Hazards -- Monsoons -- Montserrat Eruptions -- Mortality and Injury in Natural Disasters -- Mt Pinatubo -- Mud Volcanoes -- Mudflow -- Myths and Misconceptions in Disasters -- Natural Hazard -- Natural Hazards in Developing Countries -- Natural Radioactivity -- Neotectonics -- Nevado del Ruiz Volcano, Colombia 1985 -- North Anatolian Fault -- Nuée Ardente -- Overgrazing -- Ozone -- Ozone Loss -- Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) -- Pahoehoe Lava -- Paleoflood Hydrology -- Paleoseismology -- Paraglacial -- Perception of Natural Hazards and Disasters -- Permafrost -- Piezometer -- Piping Hazard -- Planning Measures and Political Aspects -- Plate Tectonics -- Pore-Water Pressure -- Post Disaster Mass Care Needs -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) -- Primary Wave (P-Wave) -- Probable Maximum Flood (PMF) -- Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) -- Psychological Impacts of Natural Disasters -- Pyroclastic Flow -- Queensland Floods (2010-2011) and „Tweeting“ -- Quick Clay -- Quick Sand -- Radiation Hazards -- Radon Hazards -- Recovery and Reconstruction After Disaster -- Recurrence Interval -- Red Cross and Red Crescent -- Red Tides -- Reflections on Modeling Disaster -- Release Rates -- Religion and Hazards -- Remote Sensing of Natural Hazards and Disasters -- Reservoir, Dams, and Seismicity -- Resilience -- Richter, Charles Francis (1900-1985) -- Rights and Obligations in International Humanitarian Assistance -- Rip Current -- Risk -- Risk Assessment -- Risk Governance -- Risk Perception and Communication -- Rock Avalanche (Sturzstrom) -- Rockfall -- Rogue Wave -- Rotational Seismology -- Sackung -- Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Intensity Scale -- San Andreas Fault -- Santorini, Eruption -- Sea Level Change -- Secondary Wave (S-Wave) -- Sedimentation of Reservoirs -- Seiche -- Seismic Gap -- Seismograph/Seismometer -- Seismology -- Shear -- Shield Volcano -- Sinkhole -- Slide and Slump -- Slope Stability -- Snowstorm and Blizzard -- Social-Ecological Systems -- Sociology of Disaster -- Solar Flares -- Solifluction -- Space Weather -- Storm Surges -- Storms -- Stratovolcanoes -- Structural Damage Caused by Earthquakes -- Structural Mitigation -- Subduction -- Subsidence Induced by Underground Extraction -- Sunspots -- Supernova -- Surge -- Susceptibility -- Tangshan, China (1976 Earthquake) -- Tectonic and Tectono-Seismic Hazards -- Tectonic Tremor -- Thunderstorms -- Tidal Bores -- Tiltmeters -- Time and Space in Disaster -- Tohoku, Japan (2011 Earthquake and Tsunami) -- Torino Scale -- Tornadoes -- Triggered Earthquakes -- Tsunami -- Tsunami Loads on Infrastructure -- Uncertainty -- United Nations Organizations and Natural Disasters -- Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) -- Unreinforced Masonry Buildings -- Urban Environments and Natural Hazards -- Usoi Landslide and Lake Sarez -- Vaiont Landslide, Italy -- Vesuvius -- Volcanic Ash -- Volcanic Gas -- Volcanoes and Volcanic Eruptions -- Vulnerability -- Warning Systems -- Waterspout -- Wenchuan, China (2008 Earthquake) -- Wildfire -- World Economy, Impact of Disasters -- Worldwide Trends in Natural Disasters -- Zoning. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910437956303321 |
| Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 | ||
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The landslide handbook [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to understanding landslides / / by Lynn M. Highland and Peter Bobrowsky
| The landslide handbook [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to understanding landslides / / by Lynn M. Highland and Peter Bobrowsky |
| Autore | Highland Lynn |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiii, 129 pages : digital, PDF file, color illustrations |
| Altri autori (Persone) | BobrowskyPeter T |
| Collana | Circular |
| Soggetto topico |
Landslides
Landslides - Prevention Landslide hazard analysis |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Landslide handbook |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910697823903321 |
Highland Lynn
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| Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 2008 | ||
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