Event type:
Evening meeting, Lecture, Regional Group
Organised by:
Central Scotland Regional Group
Venue:
Royal Over-Seas League, Edinburgh
Event status:
EVENT CLOSED
Control the Drainage: the Gospel accorded to Sinkholes based on the 16th Glossop Lecture (2015)
The Glossop Lecture is the most prestigious lecture of the Engineering Group of the Geological Society and is delivered by an invited, eminent, engineering geologist. The requirement for the presentation is that it should highlight the contribution made in the application of engineering geology to civil engineering.
Tony Waltham was invited to present the 16th Glossop Lecture entitled “Control the drainage: the gospel accorded to sinkholes” in 2015.
The CSRG is delighted to welcome Tony to Edinburgh where he will give a presentation based upon his 2015 lecture and the subsequent paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. This work intends to further some of the explanations of karst processes, and to shed some more light on the world of limestone.
By exploring this topic in detail it is hoped that the nature of karst as a geo-hazard becomes better understood, paving the way to reduce this hazard where it impacts on construction projects. Having visited engineering projects taking place on karst in many parts of the world, Tony has been made aware of how little is known by many civil engineers about karst, cavernous ground and sinkhole hazard.
Venue
Royal Over-Seas League
Over-Seas House
100 Princes Street
Edinburgh
EH2 3AB
Time
6.00pm for 6.15pm
Presenter: Tony Waltham BSc, DIC, PhD
Tony Waltham left Imperial College, London in 1968 with a first degree in geology and a PhD in mining geology. By then he had taken up the pastime of cave exploration and had, therefore, left London for the Yorkshire Dales. He took up a lectureship in the institution now known as Nottingham Trent University, where he taught miners until Britain’s coal industry died. He then moved from a fading mining department into a thriving civil engineering department. Through immersion in this new profession he moved gradually into engineering geology.
Meanwhile his cave exploration continued, largely in the Yorkshire Dales, but also in the distant lands of limestone. The combination of teaching engineering geology and a growing understanding of limestone ground from beneath led to research in the specialised field of geo-hazards, in particular sinkholes and collapsing caves. This evolved into consultancy work in engineering geology, with a focus on karst, in which Tony is recognised as one of the world experts. Read more about Tony in the event flyer.