Books published by A A Balkema Publishers

Covers crustal evolution and terrestrial plate tectonics operation from the early Archean to the present day, development of ideas pertaining to accumulations of tectonic models and more.

Discussing rock breakage by blasting, this text includes: results of complex investigations into the rock breakage mechanism and the patterns of crack formation during a blast and problems of modelling.

Papers of an International Symposium held in Edmonton, Canada, May 1989. They take up truck dispatch, fleet management, equipment, operations and safety, and haulroads.

Covers stability of natural and man made slopes, design and analysis of foundations, underground openings and excavations, computer controlled testing and investigation of soils.

Papers of the Second International Symposium on Continuous Surface Mining held in Austin, TX, 1988.

Proceedings of the 10th Plenary Scientific Session of the International Bureau of Strata Mechanics, World Mining Congress, Stockholm, June 1987.

This book contains papers, presented at the sixth International Conference on numerical methods in geomechanics held in Innsbruck in 1988, on various topics including ice mechanics, rock hydraulics, modeling of joints and infinite domains, soil structure interaction, and earth structures.

This book is based on the papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics in Innsbruck from 11¿15 April 1988. It presents a derivation of an analytical method in due consideration of mechanical interaction between groundwater and surrounding ground.

This book brings together in one place as much factual data as possible relating to the engineering geology of the Sydney Region, A huge amount of information resides in the files of various consulting and government organizations from the innumerable site investigations and construction projects in Sydney

A study of magmatism, one of the most important factors in the differentiation of matter of the Earth. It covers geological structures volcanic series, genesis of basaltic magma, and petrology of andesites of island arcs, and more.