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Table of Contents - Reviews in Engineering Geology (REG012)

A Paradox of Power: Voices of Warning and Reason in the Geosciences

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgments

The dilemma of the geologist: Earth resources and environmental policy
Lee C. Gerhard

Resolving environmental complexity: A geologic appraisal of process-response elements and scale as controls of shoreline erosion along southeastern Lake Ontario, New York
Paul R. Pinet, Charles E. McClennen, and Laura J. Moore

Colonial impacts to wetlands in Lebanon, Connecticut
Robert M. Thorson, Andrew G. Harris, Sandra L. Harris, Robert Gradie III, and M. W. Lefor

Presentation of radon potential maps to the public: A case history for Portland, Oregon
Scott F. Burns, Stuart G. Ashbaugh, Ray Paris, and George Toombs

An outbreak of coccidioidomycosis (valley fever) caused by landslides triggered by the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake
Randall W. Jibson, Edwin L. Harp, Eileen Schneider, Rana A. Hajjeh, and Richard A. Spiegel

Sewage sludge (biosolids) land disposal in a southeastern U.S. Piedmont setting: Ground-water pollution potential
Charles W. Welby

Seismic microzonation in the Pacific Northwest, with an example of earthquake hazard mapping in southwest British Columbia
Victor M. Levson, Patrick A. Monahan, Daniel G. Meldrum, Bryan D. Watts, Alex Sy, and Li Yan

Asbestos monitoring and regulation in public drinking-water supplies: A case history from North Carolina
Jeffrey C. Reid and Robert H. Carpenter

Evaluating debris-flow hazards in Davis County, Utah: Engineering versus geological approaches
Jeffrey R. Keaton and Mike Lowe

Preliminary assessment of the seismicity of the Malibu Coast Fault Zone, southern California, and related issues of philosophy and practice
Vincent S. Cronin and Keith A. Sverdrup

Glacial geology, law, and the Love Canal trial
Jodi A. Feld, Robert Emmet Hernan, and David M. Mickelson

Expectations of geological science: Yucca Mountain site characterization, Nevada
Thomas W. Bjerstedt

Providing valid long-term projections of geologic systems for policy decisions: Can we succeed? Should we try?
Jeremy M. Boak and Holly A. Dockery

Afterword