Soil And Rock Construction Materials

Soil and Rock Construction Materials © 1998 G.H.McNally For Maria © 1998 G.H.McNally Soil and Rock Construction Materials G.H.McNally BSc, BA, DIC, MAppSc, MIE Aust, CPEng Senior Lecturer in Engineering Geology Department of Applied Geology, University of New South Wales E & FN SPON An imprint of Routledge London and New York © 1998 G.H.McNally First published 1998 by E & FN Spon, an imprint of Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003. Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York NY 10001 © 1998 G.H.McNally All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-203-47657-3 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-78481-2 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0 419 21420 8 (Print Edition) © 1998 G.H.McNally Contents Preface 1 Introduction to soil and rock materials 1.1 Scope of the book 1.2 Material categories 1.3 Australian production and resources 1.4 General requirements for rock materials 1.5 The superquarry concept References and further reading 2 Hard rock materials 2.1 Location of quarry sites 2.2 Quarrying lithologies 2.3 Investigation techniques 2.4 Investigation aims 2.5 Case history: proposed Mount Flora quarry, New South Wales 2.6 Case history: Prospect quarry, Ne