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Landslides in Practice: Investigation, Analysis and Remedial/Preventative Options in Soils

(Derek H. Cornforth)

³ Geology Department, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland OR 97062

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Dr. Derek Cornforth, who founded Landslide Technology in Portland, OR, in 1983, has turned more than 50 years of working with landslides into an excellent publication that will become the book used most by geologists and geotechnical engineers who perform landslide remediation and prevention. To date, it is the most complete and comprehensive text written on the practice of working with landslides.

This book is written for the practicing engineer and geologist and for all students preparing to concentrate in this area. It will fast become the textbook of choice for graduate courses in landslides. I hope to start using it next year in my course! It should be found on the desk of everyone working with landslides because it contains so much information, it is so well organized which makes things easy to find, and it is well written! It should be purchased by all university libraries that have applied geology and civil engineering programs. I can also see the book being used by construction companies, land developers, landscape architects, and lawyers who work with the construction industry.

Cornforth's book is divided into three parts. The first 12 chapters deal with investigations and analyses of landslides and the theory behind landslide work. Chapters 13 to 23 are the book's focal point and deal with all of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]