E-raamat: Geoenvironmental Mapping: Methods,Theory and Practice

This collection of case studies, for senior undergraduate students in earth sciences, illustrates methods of geoscience and geoenvironmental mapping, with case studies on distinct methods of mapping, physical- based mapping methods, shallow subsurface mapping, resource management issues, water-land relationships, urban geology, health and the environment, and natural and geological hazards. Specific topics include engineering-geology mapping of slopes and landslides, California's Seismic Hazards Mapping Act, subsurface geologic mapping from descriptive and petrophysical borehole logs, hazard risk assessment in Russia, and tsunami deposit mapping at Seaside, Oregon. The book is designed to complement senior undergraduate instruction in engineering geology, Quaternary geology, and environmental geology. Bobrowsky teaches in the School of Earth and Ocean Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.