Geotechnical & tunnelling conditions below buried valleys in Sydney, Australia

Underground Space Use: Analysis of the Past and Lessons for the Future - Proceedings of the 31st ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 669-673

  Whiteley, Robert J ^a  

^a Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; LANDFORMS; SANDSTONE; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; LOCAL STRESS CONCENTRATION; SEISMIC IMAGING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STORAGE TUNNEL; SYDNEY , AUSTRALIA; TUNNELLING CONDITIONS;

RAILROAD TUNNELS;

EID: 84857068762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1201/noe0415374521.ch100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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