Geo-environmental implications of military mining in Flanders, Belgium, 1914-1918

Environmental Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 57-71

  Doyle, P ^a   Barton, P ^b   Rosenbaum, M S ^c   Vandewalle, J ^b   Jacobs, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b Assoc Battlefield Archaeo/Conserv   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

First World War; Flanders; Military geology; Subsidence patterns; Terrain analysis

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATION; GEOLOGY; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MINING; SEDIMENTS; TUNNELS;

MILITARY MINING;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CAVITY; EXCAVATION; MILITARY LAND; MINING; SUBSIDENCE; WAR;

BELGIUM;

EID: 0037507634     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-002-0642-8     Document Type: Article

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