The chosen textbook is:

Waltham Foundations of Engineering Geology (Blackie, 1994)
and references to this will be introduced progressively. .

The text used until last year was:

McLean and Gribble Geology for Civil Engineers (George Allen and Unwin, 1985)
and the lecture material has been closely linked to these (see the schedule).

Extensive handouts will not be distributed in this lecture course, but copies of the classroom presentation are available for download or online study.

McLean and Gribble may still be available on the second-hand market, and can be bought new from the University Bookroom. In addition, the following texts are also recommended for reference; they will be more expensive than Waltham and McLean and Gribble, but may be useful strategic purchases.

Bell, Fred G Engineering Geology
Rahn, Perry H Engineering Geology: An Environmental Approach

All four of these books have been cited as references for this subject, and so should be available through the University Bookroom at the GST-discounted rate. However, the Bookroom would have to order in copies of Bell or Rahn as I have not advised them to hold stocks of these texts. If you decide to purchase one of these, please be patient if you order through the Bookroom.

Classroom Presentations

As the class proceeds, links to material which is available will be put into effect here. If links are not active, the corresponding material is not yet finished.

The Acrobat files will be available in two formats.

• Black-and-white handout pages, six screens per page (filenames enge**n.pdf. These are intended for printing for classroom notes, if required.
• Gray-scale and colour screen copies, one screen per page (filenames enge**c.pdf). These are intended for on-screen study use. Since most or all of these screens will have colour backgrounds, printing them is not recommended as it will use a lot of coloured ink.

If larger-format black-and-white copies are required by a sufficiently large number of students, they could be produced and made available.

I am hoping to produce a CD-ROM containing all of the screen copies during the semester, and will announce this, and the terms of its availability, when it comes to pass (or ask me about it).

You will need a copy of Acrobat Reader version 4 to read the .pdf files. This is available for various platforms from a number of sites around the WWW.
You will also need a password for each .pdf file. The passwords will be announced in class; if you are not a member of the 625023 class and would like to view the files, email me, as I am interested in learning about your interest.

Other materials:

A WWW search may turn up other Geology-for-Engineers pages, with more or less relevant information than is made available here.

The general level of the first part of the subject is roughly that of the Earth Sciences subject Geology, and some of the material available to those students may be relevant.

Introductory textbooks in Physical Geology (frinstance as for the Geology subject) will also be generally relevant, although in some cases going more deeply into topics than is necessary for Engineering purposes.

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