Genesis and Properties of Collapsible Soils

Tom Dijkstra

ISBN 10: 9401040478 / ISBN 13: 9789401040471

Verlag: Springer Netherlands, 2012

Beschreibung

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Collapsing engineering soils are a formidable hazard around the world. These difficult materials also include some of the world's most fertile agricultural soils, fostering dense human populations which are therefore increasingly at risk. Despite an impressive literature on the engineering aspects of collapsing soils, these materials are coming under increasing scrutiny by scientists in other fields. This is most evidently the case with soil scientists, stratigraphers and sedimentologists. Past earth surface conditions have a direct influence on the detailed behaviour of collapsible soils: as a complement, these materials also provide detailed data on changing global climates. The selected papers presented here highlight the common ground between three scientific groups with a vested interest in a better understanding of collapsible soils.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Genesis and Properties of Collapsible Soils
• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9401040478
• ISBN-13: 9789401040471
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 240B x 160 H x 23 T Millimeter Breite: 240 mm, Höhe: 160 mm, Tiefe: 23 mm
• Gewicht: 674 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Collapsing engineering soils are a formidable hazard around the world. These difficult materials also include some of the world's most fertile agricultural soils, fostering dense human populations which are therefore increasingly at risk. Despite an impressive literature on the engineering aspects of collapsing soils, these materials are coming under increasing scrutiny by scientists in other fields. This is most evidently the case with soil scientists, stratigraphers and sedimentologists. Past earth surface conditions have a direct influence on the detailed behaviour of collapsible soils: as a complement, these materials also provide detailed data on changing global climates. The selected papers presented here highlight the common ground between three scientific groups with a vested interest in a better understanding of collapsible soils.