Military Aspects of Geology: Fortification, Excavation and Terrain Evaluation (Geological Society of London Special Publications, 362)

viii, 374 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. Contents: Military aspects of hydrogeology: an introduction and overview / J.D. Mather, E.P.F. Rose -- Crouching enemy, hidden ally: the decisive role of groundwater discharge features in two major British battles, Flodden 1513 and Prestonpans 1745 / P.L. Younger -- Water supply to Britain's eastern coastal defences in the 18th century and the work of Sir Thomas Hyde Page (1746-1821) / J.D. Mather -- Groundwater as a military resource: pioneering British military well boring and hydrogeology in World War I / E.P.F. Rose -- Examples of the influence of groundwater on British military mining in Flanders, 1914-1917 / P. Doyle -- Aspects of military hydrogeology and groundwater development by Germany and its allies in World War I / D. Willig, H. Hausler -- Groundwater as a military resource: development of Royal Engineering boring sections and British military hydrogeology in World War II / E.P.F. Rose -- War as a catalyst for change: groundwater studies in the Geological Survey of Great Britain before 1950 and the impact of two World Wars / J.D. Mather -- Soil and water: research by the British Army's Committee on mud crossing performance of tracked armoured fighting vehicles in World War II / D.A. Greenwood -- Aspects of German military geology and groundwater in World War II / D. Willig, H. Hausler -- Basement hydrogeology and fortification of the Channel Islands: legacies of British and German military engineering / N.S. Robins, E.P.F. Rose, C.S. Cheney -- Hydrological support to United States military operations, 1917-2010 / C.A. Gellasch -- Hydrogeology and the Bundeswehr: water supply to German armed forces in Somalia, Kosovo and Afghanistan between 1993 and 2010 / D. Willig -- Opportunity-driven hydrological model development in US Army research and development programs / C.W. Downer, F.L. Ogden, W.D. Martin, R.S. Harmon -- Using computer simulation to explore the importance of hydrogeology in remote sensing for explosive threat detection / S.E. Howington, J.F. Peters, J.R. Ballard, Jr., O.J. Eslinger, J.R. Fairley, R.V. Kala, R.A. Goodson, S.J. Price, A.M. Hines, L.D. Wakeley -- Effect of near-surface hydrology on soil strength and mobility / J.D. Priddy, E.S. Berney, IV, J.F. Peters -- Development of cleanup technologies for the management of US military installations / J. Miller, C. Foran -- Hydrogeology of British military sites: Project Aquatrine / L. McCaffrey, C. Bullock -- Tension over equitable allocation water: estimating renewable groundwater resources beneath the West Bank and Israel / M.M. Mansour, D.W. Peach, A.G. Hughes, N.S. Robins. 'This book complements the Geological Society’s Special Publication 362: Military Aspects of Hydrogeology. Generated under the auspices of the Society’s History of Geology and Engineering Groups, it contains papers from authors in the UK, USA, Germany and Austria. Substantial papers describe some innovative engineering activities, influenced by geology, undertaken by the armed forces of the opposing nations in World War I. These activities were reactivated and developed in World War II. Examples include trenching from World War I, tunnelling and quarrying from both wars, and the use of geologists to aid German coastal fortification and Allied aerial photographic interpretation in World War II. The extensive introduction and other chapters reveal that ‘military geology’ has a longer history. These chapters relate to pre-twentieth century coastal fortification in the UK and the USA; conflict in the American Civil War; long-term ‘going’ assessments for German forces; tunnel repair after wartime route denial in Hong Kong; and tunnel detection after recent insurgent improvisation in Iraq.'.…