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ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
C.N. Edmonds
Karst and mining geohazards with particular reference to the Chalk outcrop, England
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Aug 2008; 41: 261 - 278.
*......construction advice and disposal of surface water drainage. As a result of natural dissolution of chalk and historical chalk mining there is potential for the sudden appearance of both sinkholes and crown holes respectively across many parts of the Chalk......
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
D. Brook and B. Marker
Planning for development on land that is potentially prone to subsidence in England
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Aug 2008; 41: 403 - 408.
*......of specific approaches to planning for consideration of land liable to subsidence as a result of different causes, such as chalk mining in Norwich (Howard Humphreys Partners Ltd 1993); coal mining in south Wales (Ove Arup Partners 1995); metalliferous mining......
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
A.H. Cooper
The classification, recording, databasing and use of information about building damage caused by subsidence and landslides
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Aug 2008; 41: 409 - 424.
*......Institution of Structural Engineers (1994), shrink-swell clays and general damage Howard Humphreys Partners (1993), Norwich chalk mining subsidence Alexander (1986), landslide damage Geomorphological Services Ltd (1991), Ventnor landslide damage Chiocchio......
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ARTICLE:
G. J. Smith and M. S. Rosenbaum
Abandoned mineworkings in chalk: approaches for appraisal and evaluation
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, November 1993; 26: 281 - 291.
*......COMPLEX BEHAVIOUR RESPONSE CATEGORY FACTOR OF TUNNEL AND THE PERIPHERAL ROCK LIKELY INFLUENCE ON A LARGER SCALE I I CHALK MINING ROCK-EXCAVATION t[ ENVIRONMENTJ INTERACTION PRIMARY Cross-Section IEXCAVATION Span Tunnel Loading & IRESPONSE ~ FIELD......
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BOOK REVIEW:
Book Reviews
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, May 1991; 24: 244 - 247.
*......mechanistic control. Eleven categories are defined as: cavern collapse, sinkholes in limestone, subsidence and collapse in chalk, mining subsidence, failure of old mineral workings, salt subsidence, regional subsidence due to fluid withdrawal, consolidation......
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SESSION 5: GROUND MOVEMENTS DUE TO ABANDONED MINE WORKINGS:
C. N. Edmonds
Induced subsurface movements associated with the presence of natural and artificial underground openings in areas underlain by Cretaceous Chalk
Geological Society, London, Engineering Geology Special Publications, 1988; 5: 205 - 214.
*......immediately to the west of Merton Road. This pit was known as Webster's Pit or Stone Hills Pit. Wood- ward (1881) writing about the chalk mining at Stone Hills Pit mentions a subsidence in the workings a year or two earlier. Informants remembered adits driven northwards......
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ARTICLE:
David George Price
Engineering Geology in the Urban Environment
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, July 1971; 4: 191 - 208.
*......mining in the area is well known, so that the old workings are a recognized hazard. In other areas, such as Norwich where chalk mining is long past, the dangers are less obvious. In some areas, such as Glasgow, areas underlain by old coal workings may be redeveloped......
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