Applied Geology in California
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The most comprehensive book on Applied Geology in California!

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 Applied Geology in California is the Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG) Special Publication Number 26. Previous AEG Engineering Geology  publications were: Southern California – 1992 and Northern California in 2001.   Many, many changes since then!

Provides practitioners, professors, graduate students, and geotechnical engineers an insight into some of the current practice of applied geology, without being a text book. 

The full color book includes a significant section on water storage (including both dams and aquifers), the investigation of existing water conveyance structures (e.g., canals, and flood control levees), and the construction of some impressive tunnels. The volume also contains several papers on the innovative use of remote sensing and geographic information systems for the assessment of subsidence, condition of water conveyance structures, and fault studies. In addition some environmental topics have received considerable attention (e.g., tracking of groundwater contamination plumes, vapor intrusion, super-fracking, and mitigation of abandoned mines).

It's California, so we have a large section on characterization of active faults, seismicity and seismic hazards, with a focus on Coastal Southern California, its Borderlands, and the Lake Tahoe Basin.

At over 1,000 pages with 144 contributors to 49 chapters, topics covered include environmental, economic and engineering geology as it applies to California.    Example topics include:
  • Land Subsidence
  • Water Conveyance
  • Water Banking
  • Landslide mitigation
  • New rapid field analytical techniques
  • Issues with abandoned mines
  • Airborne techniques in mapping
  • Of course, extensive coverage of earthquakes and faults, their assessment, and hazard analysis throughout Southern and Northern California 

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About APPLIED GEOLOGY IN CALIFORNIA

Describing this book  is like setting the scene for a wine-tasting.  It is hard to describe the contents adequately and it is even harder to know how readers will experience the contents.  We know you will put this book to use in your education or profession.  The complexities of the content are immense, intense and enlightening.  It may be trite to say we are in an information explosion, but for most professionals, it is increasingly  difficult to keep up with the latest case studies and uses of new technologies.  Robert (Bob) Anderson and Horacio Ferriz faced difficult decisions and choices in selecting these chapters -- 49 chapters were chosen -- written by 144 contributors.  The scope of the volume covers applied geology including  remote sensing, some research applications, traditional geology, environmental, and of course, engineering geology.

This is a very large hardcover book; over 1000 pages, carefully edited and produced in COLOR.  
It is valuable to all geologists, in and out of California,  and to students of applied geology as well.