{"title":"The 18\n th\n Glossop Lecture: Variability and ground hazards: How does the ground get to be 'unexpected'?","authors":"J. A. Skipper","doi":"10.1144/qjegh2024-008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This paper is based on the 18\n th\n Glossop Lecture, asking why, in engineering, ‘understanding the ground’ is critical for the safety and financial success of the project, and yet ground conditions are still frequently misunderstood. It explores what blocks both our understanding of ground variability and the associated risks, why some sediments are predictably more variable than others, and why variability can actually be a good thing. Examples from the Lambeth Group (56.25 to 55 million years) and the London Clay Formation (54.5 to 51.5 million years) of SE England are used (Figure 1) , but most of the concepts covered are also relevant to many other ages and similar types of sedimentary geology, worldwide.\n","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":"26 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2024-008","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper is based on the 18
th
Glossop Lecture, asking why, in engineering, ‘understanding the ground’ is critical for the safety and financial success of the project, and yet ground conditions are still frequently misunderstood. It explores what blocks both our understanding of ground variability and the associated risks, why some sediments are predictably more variable than others, and why variability can actually be a good thing. Examples from the Lambeth Group (56.25 to 55 million years) and the London Clay Formation (54.5 to 51.5 million years) of SE England are used (Figure 1) , but most of the concepts covered are also relevant to many other ages and similar types of sedimentary geology, worldwide.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
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