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This volume covers a range of techniques used to understand groundwater flow and contaminant transport in carbonate aquifers. The text begins with a review of thoughts and methods followed by a number of topics including the use of tracers.

This volume offers up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines which give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa.

Aimed at students interested in natural resources and environmental science, this illustrated book explains fundamental hydrologic principles and favoured methods of analysis, and includes exercises and examples to develop problem-solving skills.

This work argues for the adoption of sociotechnology as a unified concept where both social and technical aspects are approached simultaneously.

Decision Support Systems (DSSs) are electronic systems that support the decision-making process. This work discusses the development of the DSS for groundwater pollution assessment.

This text contains two suboptimal schemes of the Kalman filter, both of which can approximate the results from the Kalman filter at a much lower cost.

This volume is taken from an ecological study of wetlands undertaken in northern Lake Victoria (East Africa) between 1993 and 1996 with the major aim of characterizing shallow vegetation-dominated interface habitats, and evaluating their importance.

In considering strait crossings, papers in this text deal with bridges, tunnels, immersed tunnels, submerged floating tunnels, floating bridges, ferry crossings in general, and social and environmental aspects.

In considering hydro-elasticity in marine technology, this text covers risers of floating production platforms, cables, pipelines, flexible containers, seal bag system of surface effect ships, slamming on ships, whipping, and springing of ships.

A compilation of views of many international experts on the need for recycling.

Soils formed or now existing under arid climatic conditions cover more than one-third of the world's land surface. Many have unique characteristics which can pose difficult geotechnical problems. This text considers these problems.

This work looks at the development of constitutive relations for geotechnical materials that, with the help of numerical models, have increased the ability to predict and to interpret the mechanical behaviour of geotechnical works.

Highlights the multi-disciplinary nature of probabilistic risk and hazard assessment procedures. Topics covered include: hazard scenario analyses; probabilistic risk assessments; consequence modelling; structural reliability and more.

The proceedings of the 2nd International Scale Effects in Rock Masses, held in Lisbon, June 25, 1993. The text includes coverage of scale effects in the determination of the deformability and strength of rock masses.

The papers reflect the multidisciplinary activity in a research area that has grown significantly. The focus of the proceedings is the scientific understanding of the nature and description of particle interactions and assembly geometry.

As mining operations increase in scale and mines go progressively deeper, the geotechnical input into mine design is of importance. This book covers topics in geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring, including coverage of groundwater.

These proceedings include the latest developments in research and practice in the area of mining-induced seismicity.

The proceedings of this conference contain keynote addresses on recent developments in geotechnical reliability and limit state design in geotechnics.

Gives a historical introduction to embankment dams and describes the need for instrumentation, planning procurement, and installation practices of instruments. Discusses visual inspection, seepage, pore pressure, surface and internal displacements.

The third volume in this series, this deals with dams which generate electricity and maintain the natural resources and industrial facilities, including power-generating stations, storage tanks and piping of nuclear power stations.

This text examines the field of fractals and its applications in earth sciences. Topics covered include: concepts of fractal and multi-fractal chaos; the application of fractals in geophysics, geology, and climate studies.

This text discusses factors such as mast overload, capacity of draw works, and deviation in the hole to be drilled and the strata to be drilled. An omnibus approach to drilling techniques and problems is adopted.

In considering how computers are utilized in the mineral industry, this work includes coverage of mineral resource management, national database and national mineral exploration planning; project evaluation and monitoring applications.

This examination of the physical and mechanical properties of eluvial soils covers modern methods of evaluating the degree of weathering, deformation and strength characteristics in such soils.

This translation discusses historical geotectonics, including such topics as: the development of Phanerozoic mobile belts; the mature stage of Caledonian and the initial stage of Hercynian mobile belts; and the end of development of the Hercynian.