What was initially reported in the media as a sinkhole in the area of St. Jude, Quebec, northeast of Montreal, appears to be a landslide caused by so called quick clay. This particular formation, the […]
Massive Flood Hits Nashville – CE News Taiwan No.3 Freeway cleared after landslide but still 20 days to reopening – Taiwan News Online EPA Moves on Proposed New Rule For Coal Ash – ENR: Engineering […]
Pomona Landslide Fear: Landslide Fear Shuts Down Part of 10 Freeway in Pomona – KTLA What caused Richmond sinkhole? Answer may lie in steel culvert pipe below – ContraCostaTimes.com via ASCE SmartBrief Natural disasters as […]
Last Sunday, April 25, 2010 a major landslide covered a 300-m plus stretch of Taiwan’s National Freeway No. 3, killing at least 4 people and burying three cars and destroying a bridge. The estimated volume […]
Taiwan Higway 3 Landslide Massive landslide covers Taiwan freeway, kills at least 4. {!jomcomment}{addthis off}
These geologic maps just released from the California Geologic Survey mark the 150th anniversary of the CGS. They can be viewed online in a very easy to use Google Maps interface. The previous Geologic Map […]
A nearly three year battle between homeowners affected by the 2007 landslide on Mt. Soledad Road in a La Jolla neighborhood is now over. I first blogged about this event shortly after it happened as […]
Some juicy geoengineering news items in this post. I could turn just about all of them into a separate blog post if I had time, maybe I still will for some of them. Don’t miss this list! All of the links are active when you view it on the site. If you’re looking at this in your RSS feed reader or on your daily email, you won’t see the actual links, sorry.
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Standards governing the testing of tensile strength of geogrid and geotextile tensile strength are among the standards updated over the past month by the ASTM. This includes a new standard for "Determining Small-Strain Tensile Properties of Geogrids and Geotextiles by In-Air Cyclic Tension Tests". A number of standards relating to concrete including capping of concrete cyllinders for testing have also been updated. Click through for the list.
The Florida Geological Survey probably deals with more sinkholes than most agencies. The most frequent geologic cause of sinkholes is dissolution of limestone and other soluble rocks and the collapse of the soil cover over […]
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