Engineering Geology of Melbourne

Engineering Geology of Melbourne
Author: J.L. Neilson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1351451073

A compilation of papers describing the geology, engineering properties and the hazards and design issues associated with the substrata of Melbourne and its surrounds. It includes the area from Geelong to Bacchus Marsch to the Dandenongs and Mornington Peninsula.

Geology of Victoria

Geology of Victoria
Author: W. D. Birch
Publisher: Geological Society of Australia
Total Pages: 872
Release: 2003
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Physical geography, geology, and mineralogy of Victoria.

Eighth International Conference on Water Pollution Research

Eighth International Conference on Water Pollution Research
Author: S. H. Jenkins
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 1285
Release: 2013-09-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1483187934

Water Pollution Research covers the proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Water Pollution Research, held in Sydney, Australia on October 17-22, 1976. This book is composed of 150 and begins with discussions of the different sources of water pollution, including aerosolization, viral contamination, hydrocarbons, and heavy metals. Considerable chapters are devoted to various chemical processes for wastewater management; technical requirements for standard water quality; and methods of pollutant analysis. These topics are followed by surveys of Sydney's design of ocean outfall, an integrated pollution control system, and sewage sludge disposal. Other chapters describe the features of wastewater treatment reactors and other treatment alternatives. The remaining chapters present various case studies demonstrating the performance and improvements of different wastewater treatment facilities. This book will prove useful to water pollution researchers, environmentalists, and design engineers.

Gariwerd

Gariwerd
Author: Benjamin Wilkie
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1486307701

People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations. They have both witnessed and caused vast environmental transformations in and around the ranges. Gariwerd: An Environmental History of the Grampians explores the geological and ecological significance of the mountains and combines research from across disciplines to tell the story of how humans and the environment have interacted, and how the ways people have thought about the environments of the ranges have changed through time. In this new account, historian Benjamin Wilkie examines how Djab wurrung and Jardwadjali people and their ancestors lived in and around the mountains, how they managed the land and natural resources, and what kinds of archaeological evidence they have left behind over the past 20 000 years. He explores the history of European colonisation in the area from the middle of the 19th century and considers the effects of this on both the first people of Gariwerd and the environments of the ranges and their surrounding plains in western Victoria. The book covers the rise of science, industry and tourism in the mountains, and traces the eventual declaration of the Grampians National Park in 1984. Finally, it examines more recent debates about the past, present and future of the park, including over its significant Indigenous history and heritage.

Geology and Religion

Geology and Religion
Author: Martina Kölbl-Ebert
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781862392694

The book discusses this long-standing relationship from a historical point of view, which in the past has been sometimes indifferent, sometimes fruitful and sometimes full of conflict. The relationship continues well into the present. While Christian fundamentalists attack evolution and related palaeontological findings as well as the geological evidence of the age of the Earth, mainstream theologians strive for a fruitful dialogue between science and religion. Much of what is written and discussed today can only be understood, when the historical perspective is added. This book considers the following topics: the development of geology from mythological approaches towards the European Enlightenment, Biblical or Geological Flood and the age of the Earth, geology within 'religious' organizations, biographical case studies of geological clerics and religious geologists, religion and evolution, historical aspects of creationism and its motives.