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Urban engineering geological maps for Bradford, UK
No full textAn applied geological study of the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, UK, was the last of a series of British Government-funded projects to provide background applied geological information for land-use planning and development. This study included a range of engineering geological maps. As well as providing a general engineering geological overview, the maps show foundation conditions, suitability of deposits as engineered fill, excavatability, the thickness of superficial deposits and landslide distribution and slope steepness. The paper briefly describes the content of the maps and how they were produced
Better defined geological and hazard models for Bellahouston Park, Glasgow : extension, Autumn 2003
No full textGlasgow City Council (GCC) would like the key, south-central area of Bellahouston Park to be used for
public events and wish to further constrain hazard areas related to old mineworkings. Previous studies and
a borehole drilling programme have improved the geological and hazard model related to the workings of
the Knightswood Gas and Pollock Stone coals (Rogers and Sowerbutts, 2000; Monaghan, Browne &
Culshaw 2003). However a problematic area remained around a 1960’s borehole record ‘Pollock
Borehole 13’ that contained a 1.1m void at 22.2m depth (–1.7m OD). The void was interpreted as being at
the level of the Banton Rider Coal and the geology of the borehole did not fit well with surrounding
boreholes (Monaghan, Browne & Culshaw 2003). The area where this void would be projected to crop
out (hazard class D2) was in the centre of the part of the park with least hazard (no recorded
mineworkings). Therefore, GCC wished to further resolve the area of hazard class D2 to adequately
understand the hazards to public safety in this prime area for future activities.
GCC commissioned the British Geological Survey (BGS) to undertake stratigraphical logging of three
additional boreholes and to update the geological and hazard models for southern Bellahouston Park
accordingly. Please refer to Monaghan, Browne & Culshaw (2003) along with this report
Using geological data to identify some environmental problems associated with existing pipelines and other linear structures
No full textPipelines and other linear structures often cover large distances across topographically and geologically varied ground. In the last decade, or so, geological information has started to become available in digital form for countries and regions. This enables a wide-range of users, including pipeline operators, to access interpreted geohazard information not only for the construction of new linear infrastructure, but also to assess a range of geological risks to existing linear infrastructure that might have been constructed before such information was available.
Examples of the use of such information are discussed in relation to Great Britain’s national natural gas and ethylene pipeline networks and the possible raising of the Thames Estuary flood embankment that helps to protect London from flooding. Future developments in the provision of geological information are discussed, including bespoke information systems in which the outputs are defined by the users rather than the information holder
Jack Alive / Martin Dead : The Location of the "Author" in Jack London\u27s Martin Eden
No full textThis essay is an attempt to read Martin Eden, Jack Londonʼs autobiographical novel, in terms of the inextricable relationship between the author and the protagonist. Critics have often taken the unbalanced plot and the lack of ironic distance between narrator and character in Martin Eden as the technical weakness of London, but this paper argues that the achievement of this novel owes a great deal to the attachment of London to Martin. The unbalanced structure is a necessary product of the severe struggle of the author to kill his romantic alter ego. // Martin, who aspires to win Ruth Morse, tries to cross class boundaries by making a career of a writer. Even after realizing the emptiness of Ruth, who turns out to be nothing but a typical figure of the bourgeoisie, he somehow persists in loving her. The notion underlying here is that, for Martin, love, career and art are fundamentally inseparable. He objects to the aestheteʼs view of Brissenden on account of his separation of art from career. Martinʼs identity and life consist only in the triunity of love/career/art; the alternative is the repudiation of life. Thus, the unnatural delay of his disappointment in love can be regarded as Londonʼs strategy to set the suicide of Martin as the necessary consequence of the story. // By finishing the story and killing Martin, London finally detaches himself from Martin, reconstructs his self, and, unlike Martin, survives as a professional writer. In this sense, Martin Eden is a story about “writerʼs self-reconstruction.
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Letter from Martin Chizzick
No full textCongratulations to Duane Pearsall for receiving the Enterpreneur of the Year award; note on the letter was written by Pearsall and it mentions that Martin, the author of the letter, died in a airplane accident
Robert Martin Tiffin's Mystery Man Newspaper Articles
No full textAdvertiser-Tribune newspaper clippings featuring a story about Robert Martin (written by Nancy Kleinhenz), a local author from Tiffin (Ohio) who wrote under the pseudonym of Lee Roberts, and two of his short stories. Martin wrote mystery novels in his spare time, creating more than 22 mystery novels. For more information about Robert Martin and a list of books go to http://www.mysteryfile.com/RMartin/JBennett.html
The engineering geology of the Nottingham area, UK
No full textNottingham was built near a crossing point on the River Trent in the East Midlands of England. Initially, the City developed on a low sandstone hill close to the north bank of the river, which provided a secure, well-drained location above the marshes that bordered the river. Geologically, Nottingham stands at the boundary between Palaeozoic rocks to the north and west, and Mesozoic and Cainozoic strata to the south and east. The area is underlain by coal-bearing Carboniferous Coal Measures, Permian dolomitic limestones, Permo-Triassic mudstones and weak sandstones, Jurassic clays and Quaternary glacial and alluvial deposits. Artificial deposits, resulting from the social, industrial and mineral extraction activities of the past cover the natural deposits over much of the area.
This geological environment has underpinned the economic development of the area through the mining of coal (now largely ceased), oil extraction that was important during the Second World War, brickmaking from clays, alluvial sand and gravel extraction from the Trent Valley and gypsum extraction from the Permo-Triassic mudstones. The Permo-Triassic sandstone is a nationally important aquifer and has also been exploited at the surface and from shallow mines for sand.
However, this history of the use and exploitation of mineral deposits has created a number of environmental problems including rising groundwater levels, abandoned mine shafts and mining subsidence, and, within the City itself, the occasional collapse of artificial cavities in the sandstone and contaminated land left by industrial activities. Natural constraints on development include gypsum dissolution, landslides, rockfalls, swell-shrink problems in Jurassic clays and flooding. Occasional minor earthquakes are attributed to movements due to coal mining or natural, deep geological structures. Thus, Nottingham’s geological context remains an important consideration when planning its future regeneration and development
Experiences Using Large Scale Video Walls for Distance Education
No full textWe describe our experiences building and using the Rutgers Videowall, a low-cost telepresence system that has been used teaching 15 courses and colloquia. By relaxing typical spatial telepresence features, such as background continuity, we greatly reduced costs and gained flexibility in the rooms it could be deployed in. The lower costs and room flexibility enabled academic departments to use the wall, in contrast to traditional telepresence systems which remained inaccessible. We found that the Videowall’s spatial distortions did not have a significant impact on useability, as our initial survey results show that students had an overall positive experience.Technical report DCS-tr-72
Hans Martin Schwarz Collection 1934 - 1938
No full textThis collection contains clippings of articles by Hans Martin Schwarz (1917, Hamburg – 2006, New York, better known as Martin Ebon), published between 1934 and 1938 in German-Jewish newspapers on a wide variety of subjects such as sports, emigration, the political situation in Germany, and religious attitudes of the young. It also contains reviews of his books "Einer wie Du und Ich" and "Heiteres, Besinnliches, Nachdenkliches."digitizedHans Martin Schwarz (1917, Hamburg – 2006, New York, better known as Martin Ebon), was a journalist and author. In Germany during the 1930s, he published in a variety of German-Jewish periodicals, primarily the Israelitisches Familienblatt. After immigrating to the United States in 1938, he changed his name to Martin Ebon, and published dozens of books in the areas of world affairs and parapsychology.Processe
Fifty, or so, years of engineering geology in the British Geological Survey, 1967 to 2019
No full textThis report attempts to summarise the main activities in the initially named Engineering Geology
Unit (EGU) from its creation in 1967 to 2019, after which the BGS structure shifted from
discipline to challenge based groupings. The abbreviation ‘EGU’ is used throughout the report
though the actual name of the management grouping for engineering geology changed many
times between 1967 and 2019. Only four of the authors were employed by the Natural
Environment Research Council at the British Geological Survey (BGS) until October 2019 when
the management structure changed completely; they were Dave Gunn and Pete Hobbs, who
both retired at the end of June 2021, Marcus Dobbs and Claire Dashwood. Stuart Duncan left at
the end of February 1979, Dave McCann at the end of April 1997, Martin Culshaw at the end of
March 2008, Kevin Northmore in April 2012, June Page in February 2013, Tony Cooper in
March 2014, Tom Dijkstra in September 2017, Dave Entwisle in March 2019 and Jon Busby in
May 2021. Richard Ellison was never a member of EGU but collaborated on many projects from
the 1970s onwards. Consequently, there are more details covering the years up to around 2010
than on the work in the last decade. The EGU paper records have been examined and sorted
out by Kevin Northmore, Martin Culshaw and Stuart Duncan and form part of the BGS’s paper
archives. However, these documents only cover the ‘paper’ rather than the ‘digital’ years and, in
any case, are not complete
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