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 Chalk Mining Essential References and Further Reading

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 Chalk Mining Essential References

Bennett, F. J. (1887) On chalk wells, Essex Naturalist, Volume 1, pp 260-265

Caiger, J. E. L. (1953) Researches and discoveries in Kent, Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 66, pp 147-149

Caiger, J. E. L. (1964) Darenth Wood; its earthworks and antiquities, Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 79, pp 77-94

Edmonds, C. N. (1988) Induced subsurface movements associated with the presence of natural and artificial underground openings in areas underlain by Cretaceous Chalk, From: Bell, F. G., Culshaw, M. G., Cripps, J. C. & Lovell, M. A. (eds) Engineering Geology of Underground Movements, Geological Society Engineering Geology Special Publication No. 5, pp 205-214

Edmonds, C. N. (2008) Karst and mining geohazards with particular reference to the Chalk outcrop, England, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Volume 41 (3), pp 261-278

Edmonds, C. N., Green, C. P. & Higginbottom, I. E. (1990) Review of underground mines in the English chalk: form, origin, distribution and engineering significance, In: Chalk, Thomas Telford, London

Elliott, F. W. (1887) Notes on some chalk-wells in Buckinghamshire, Addenda (A) in Report on the denehole exploration at Hangman’s Wood, Grays, by T. V. Holmes and W. Cole, Essex Naturalist, Volume 1, pp 254-255.

Le Gear, R. F. (1976) Pillared deneholes at Stankey Wood, Bexley, Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 92, pp 137-144

Lord, J. A., Clayton, C. R. I. & Mortimore, R. N. (2002) Engineering in chalk, CIRIA  Publication C574, London

Mason, H. J. (1978) Flint – The versatile stone, Providence Press

Money, W. (1906) A Berkshire denehole, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Volumes 12-13, p 212

Spurrell, F. C. J. (1881) Deneholes and artificial caves with vertical entrances, Archaeological Journal, Volume 38, pp 391-409

Spurrell, F. C. J. (1882) Deneholes and artificial caves with vertical entrances (continued), Archaeological Journal, Volume 39, pp 1-22

Tester, P. J. & Caiger, J. E. L. (1958) Medieval buildings in the Joyden’s Wood Square Earthwork, Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 72, pp 18-39

Young, A (1804) Agriculture of Hertfordshire, MacMillan, London

 Chalk Mining Essential Further Reading

Department of the Environment (1990) Planning Policy Guidance PPG14 Development on unstable land

Department of the Environment (1996) Planning Policy Guidance PPG14 (Annex 1) Development on unstable land: Landslides and planning

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (2000) Planning Policy Guidance PPG14 (Annex 2) Development on unstable land: Subsidence and planning

Howard Humphreys and Partners Limited (1993) Subsidence in Norwich, Report of the Study on the Causes and Mechanisms of Land Subsidence, Norwich, Department of the Environment Research Contract PECD7/1/362, HMSO, London

 Chalk Mining Essential Websites

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 Chalk Mining Essential References @ Lyell Collection

Lyell Collection papers on Chalk Mining from Engineering Group Special Publications and the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology.

 

 

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