BGS Rock Classification Scheme. Volume 4, Classification of Artificial (man-made) Ground and Natural Superficial Deposits Applications to Geological Maps and Datasets in the UK
BGS Rock Classification Scheme. Volume 4, Classification of Artificial (man-made) Ground and Natural Superficial Deposits Applications to Geological Maps and Datasets in the UK

Author: A.A. McMillan

Publisher:

Published: 1999

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This report describes the BGS classification schemes for drift of Pleistocene and Recent age comprising artificial (man-made ground) and natural superficial deposits. They are designed to be used and interpreted by both geologists and non-geologists to allow thematic material comprising identified classes of superficial deposits to be extracted from geological maps and other data-sets. The schemes can be developed further to other classes of materials particularly from overseas tropical and sub-tropical land, shelf and deep-sea areas. In Britain traditional onshore investigations of the drift have employed a morphogenetic and lithogenetic terminology resulting in an amalgam of terms with a dominantly genetic basis. This report adopts a similarly genetic approach, however it is recognised that an objective description involving sedimentological, structural, physical and chemical criteria to construct lithofacies associations is desirable and reference to such schemes is made where appro ...

Urban Geoscience
Urban Geoscience

Author: G. McCall

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1996-07-31

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9789054106470

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This volume looks at the increasing demand for geoscientific input to planning urban land use, rectifying problems of decay and poor prior procedures, rehabilitating land after the closure of extractive and other industries, designing new constructions, and environmental assessment.

BGS Rock Classification Scheme. Volume 3, Classification of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks
BGS Rock Classification Scheme. Volume 3, Classification of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks

Author: C.R. Hallsworth

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Published: 1999

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Existing sediment and sedimentary rock nomenclature has been based on composition, texture and other physical attributes as well as depositional environment, genetic relationships and local economic importance. A consistent, workable classification for all sediments and sedimentary rocks needs a set of unifying boundary conditions: this classification attempts to do this. The sediment and sedimentary rock names used are descriptive and it should be possible to classify and name any sediment or sedimentary rock without knowledge of its field setting and without making assumptions about its mode of origin. There are sections on siliciclastics, carbonates, dolomites, phosphates, iron sediments and ironstones, organic rich sediments and rocks, non-carbonate salts, non-clastic siliceous sediments and sedimentary rocks, miscellaneous hydroxides and oxides, sediments and rocks based on grain size, hybrid sediments or sedimentary rocks, volcaniclastics and qualifiers. The report, issued here a ...