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Liquefaction - Indonesia earthquake and tsunami: Before, after images show villages wiped away - CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/01/world/indonesia-earthquake-tsunami-satellite-trnd/index.html Dragos

Paris global warming targets could be exceeded sooner than expected because of melting permafrost, study finds

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-paris-agreement-permafrost-melting-carbon-emissions-a8541686.html Sent from Pocket - Get it free! Dragos

Want to know how a wind turbine foundation is made?

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Leaning Towers ...

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Pisa, Italy With lateral support :) Burano, Italy

Pacifica Coastal Erosion

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Bedding Planes Example

This link will take you to Google maps, use street view to look around at this location, you will see a nice example of bedding planes on Highway 118, Simi Valley, California. Link

Images of Clay Photo Gallery

Follow the link below to see a gallery of photographs of clay minerals. Only science fiction comes close to what you will see ... http://www.minersoc.org/gallery.php?id=2

Exposed foundation

Exposed foundation during a severe flood - you want to see this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208269 Thanks to your colleague Kareem for sharing this link!

Rockfall video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVjr4mii3cE

Stress Distributions in Soils

Click on the title to see some screenshot of FEM applications for geotech engineering. You can also click here to see other examples of stress and pore water pressure distributions in soils.

Boring Location Marking in Lot C

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Here is how geotech companies mark boring locations. The photograph was taken in parking lot C, this morning. I hope they called DigAlert.

The Rock Cycle Web Site

Click on the title to access a cool website about rocks, the rock cycle and other things that are also discussed in the Engineering Geology chapter of your text.

Geotech Activities in Photos and Videos

Click on the title to access a library of photos and videos of a variety of geotech activities (drilling, sampling, etc.)

Link to USGS site about ground water, aquifers, etc.

Click on the title to follow the link.

Earthwork Computations

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Sinkhole in Guatemala: Giant Could Get Even Bigger

Sinkhole in Guatemala: Giant Could Get Even Bigger

Link to Dr. Kitch's Presentations

Clik on title above to follow the link to Dr.Kitch's page where you can find presentations about many field and laboratory tests routinely used in geotechnical engineering. For example Atterberg Limits, Direct Shear, etc.

Consolidation Test

Geotech Field Investigation

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CE327L students obtain soil samples and perform in-situ tests:

Unconfined Compression Test