Geoenvironmental Mapping: Methods,Theory and PracticePeter T Bobrowsky This text illustrates the range of environmental geoscience mapping presently carried out around the world. Specialists in several countries have contributed a number of subdisciplinary and thematic topics including volcanic hazards, landslides, dolines, tsunamis, radon potential, medical geology, rainfall erosion, engineering geology, borehole stratigraphy, lake sediment geochemistry, aggregate resources and remote sensing. The collection, analysis and interpretation of data by geologists, geographers and engineers typically involves the presentation of information in map form, which can range from black/white to colour, 2-D to 3-D and paper copy to digital format illustrations. This volume reaffirms the global need for mapping geoscientific data. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Engineeringgeology mapping of slopes and landslides | 9 |
Regolithlandform mapping An Australian approach | 29 |
Environmental mapping of geochemical systems | 57 |
Multilevel geologic hazard assessment mapping in the Rio Grande gorge northern New Mexico USA | 75 |
Californias Seismic Hazards Mapping Act Geoscience and public policy | 93 |
Subsurface geologic mapping from descriptive and petrophysical borehole logs | 121 |
Mapping with allostratigraphic frameworks Implications for understanding alluvial landscapes in southern Burgundy France | 147 |
Natural hazard mapping in small urban areas Antioquia Colombia | 387 |
Direct and indirect anthropogenic modifications in the basin of Mexico | 411 |
Encouraging better use of geological information by planners and developers in England | 429 |
Geoenvironmental mapping applied to urban settlements La Vail de Gallinera Alicante Spain | 451 |
Medical geology Method theory and practice | 473 |
The geography of disease family trees The case of selenium | 497 |
Map representation of indicators for assessing environmental impacts of mining in the Zambian Copperbelt | 531 |
Hazard risk assessment in Russia | 547 |
Mineral exploration and environmental applications of lake sediment geochemical mapping in the Canadian Cordillera | 169 |
Aggregate potential mapping | 195 |
Hot spots and sensitive areas Contribution of remote sensing to geoenvironmental mapping in Lebanon | 223 |
Geoenvironmental mapping in southwestern Saskatchewan Rainfall erosion potential | 239 |
Bathometric data for 2D and 3D landscape mapping | 251 |
Geoenvironmental mapping for groundwater protection in Illinois USA | 273 |
The development and significance of a geologic sensitivity map of the Rouge River Watershed in southeastern Michigan USA | 295 |
Mapping river channels and velocity fields for environmental analysis | 321 |
Floodplain hazard assessment Application to forest land management in British Columbia Canada | 343 |
Environmental geology mapping for urban planning in Lithuania | 369 |
An overview of volcanic hazard maps Past present and future | 557 |
Geological radon potential mapping | 577 |
The Makassar Strait tsunamigenic region Indonesia | 615 |
Tsunami deposit mapping at Seaside Oregon USA | 629 |
Actual and potential doline subsidence hazard mapping Case study in the Ebro basin Spain | 649 |
Mapping in the interpretation and risk assessment of flowslides in sensitive Quaternary muddy sediments | 667 |
Quantitative prediction model for landslide hazard mapping Tsitika and Schmidt Creek Watersheds Northern Vancouver Island British Columbia Can... | 697 |
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Common terms and phrases
activity aggregate resources alluvial analysis aquifer assessment bedrock borehole British Columbia Canada channel classification Clay Unit climate concentrations contamination Creek database deposits depth disease distribution dolines earthquakes elevation engineering environment environmental geology erosion evaluation Figure flood floodplain flow flowslide fluvial geochemical mapping geochemistry geologic units geological mapping Geological Survey geotechnical groundwater hazard map Holocene impact indicate indoor radon interpretation lake sediment land land-use landforms landscape landslides lithology located logs Makassar Makassar Strait mapping units materials Mexico mineral Necanicum River occur permeability planning processes pyroclastic flows Quaternary radon potential maps regional regolith risk rocks Rouge River samples sand and gravel scale sediment seismic hazard selenium sensitivity Skeena River slide slope soil gas radon spatial stratigraphic study area subsidence subsurface surface surficial Table thickness topographic tsunami types urban valley variables volcanic watershed Zymoetz River
References to this book
Communicating Environmental Geoscience David Gordon Earl Liverman,C. P. G. Pereira,Brian Marker Limited preview - 2008 |