Typical geological profile
Typical geological profile
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Hello
I am arguing with my idiot boss who have little background in geological field, about the variation of geology even within meters. I stated that important variation ( layers can change shape , orientation , pockets of materials can be found, geological structures etc) but he won't listen .
Can anyone provide me with a practical example of a geological profile especially from a book ?
I am arguing with my idiot boss who have little background in geological field, about the variation of geology even within meters. I stated that important variation ( layers can change shape , orientation , pockets of materials can be found, geological structures etc) but he won't listen .
Can anyone provide me with a practical example of a geological profile especially from a book ?
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As to a book, I'd more likely get into the subject of pedology, even though it is only to shallow depths. Generally given soil series can be found over given geologic formations, including glacial deposits. Also a fun one to spring on a geotech engineer is to ask them for a definition of "structure" of soil deposits. A soils prof I once knew was buffaloed by that in a legal case.
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A true story - one of my senior engineers told me that on his first job he had drilled a hole and hit bedrock at 10 ft or so . . . told his boss (he had another hole to drill) that he'd finish the next day - the borehole was fairly close to the one he had drilled. Well the next day turned into next week where the bedrock had dropped off by some 100 ft. I've seen that to along the Humber River in Toronto.
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About the Terzaghi book , yes i do have that book and the figures you mentioned . But my Dog i mean boos will require heavier doses of figures to yield .
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When we want to study slope stability , we need to align at least 3 bore holes to obtain a nice soil profile . Any considerable misalignment can give erroneous ideas about what's under the surface. For my project , we could not achieve such a task for constrains however. We did use 2 bore holes that were not perpendicular to the slope and this was the subject of our debate.
With a distance of say 20 m between 2 bore holes and none of them was above the crest , how in the hell could you consider yourself right in stating that we can make a soil profile out of this ?! then he proceed by saying if i could return back in time , i would not recruit you !
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For instance , English is not my primary language but yet i still read from time to time and understand how complex yet wonderful geotechnical engineering is ( when i was a kid i wanted to be an astrophysicist but now i love geotechnique ) . All that being said , you cannot fight the ultimate enemies where i live , which are stagnation and the unwillingness to accept others opinions and that's why wars emerge ....
Anyway,thank you all for the contribution .
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This all seems to fit the story of a young man in his teens who had an awful time trying to convince his father the corrections of the many problems facing them. Then once he turned into the early 20's he was very pleased to see how much the old man learned in a few years.
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Just to give a clarification , we still use the ruler to draw layers between boreholes . yes we do have geologist but they are contaminated themselves with corrupted misconceptions.
I know that when we will get sued for the death of people , only the signature of the engineers matters but in my country we are not so ...lets say advanced to possess Standard limitations of liability clauses for instance , nor do we have technical and normative guides . We also don't have geotechnical lawyers , and rarely does anyone get sued for anything!!! yes welcome to the third world .
@oldestguy : well i changed the thesis title and the prof , i am currently working on the behavior of soils treated with Pozzolan.
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As to the point at hand - insufficient information . . . we've all been there and done that. A good reason to be well read about case histories and what others have done - and to take advice of people like oldestguy and PEinc - and to formulate - not necessarily the most elegant and cost effective solution - but one that is robust and can take into account potential variations. By the way - I have worked in Asia for over 20 years now and empathize with you.
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