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- Title
Engineering significance of superficial structures and landslides in the Bath area, UK.
- Authors
Hawkins, A. B.
- Abstract
The City of Bath is located in a steep-sided valley eroded through the competent, thickly bedded limestones and incompetent, weak mudrocks of the Lower and Middle Jurassic. In the Pleistocene, two types of camber developed; their engineering significance is discussed. In addition, a number of large landslides occurred in the valley of the River Avon during the Pleistocene. Historically, smaller landslides developed within these, one of which resulted in the destruction of 135 houses while another accounts for the presence of an asymmetric crescent in this world-famous Georgian city.
- Subjects
BATH (England); CAMBER (Aerofoils); SLOPE stability; LANDSLIDES; PLEISTOCENE Epoch; ASYMMETRIC synthesis
- Publication
Bulletin of Engineering Geology & the Environment, 2013, Vol 72, Issue 3/4, p353
- ISSN
1435-9529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10064-013-0481-8