Urban Engineering Geological Maps for Bradford, UK

Abstract

An applied geological study of the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, UK, was the last of a series of British Government-funded projects to provide background applied geological information for land-use planning and development. This study included a range of engineering geological maps. As well as providing a general engineering geological overview, the maps show foundation conditions, suitability of deposits as engineered fill, excavatability, the thickness of superficial deposits and landslide distribution and slope steepness. The paper briefly describes the content of the maps and how they were produced.

Geotechnical map of a coastal and industrialized urban area (Avilés, NW Spain)

“…Nowadays, digital databases implemented into Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have become a fundamental tool in the procedure of preparation of geo-engineering maps. Recent engineering geological maps at urban environments are based on ground databases, which are generally manipulated using GIS software (Chaminé et al, 2016;Culshaw & Northmore, 2015;El May, Dlala, & Chenini, 2010;Faccini, Robbiano, Roccati, & Angelini, 2012;Forster, Lawrence, Highley, Cheney, & Arrick, 2004;Masoud, 2016;Merritt & Whitbread, 2007;Oliveira, Gomes, & Guimarães, 2009;Zuquette, Pejon, & Dos Santos Collares, 2004), and therefore, this methodology seems to be fully consolidated to approach these environments subsoil studies.…”