GeologyRocksLandslides at Newfoundland
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Assessing slope stability
Fri, 04/20/2007 - 16:56Assessing slope stability etc sounds like the job of a geographer to me.... My degree is in physical geography and we've touched on landslides and slope stability numerous times. I suppose its one of the areas where geography and geology overlap.
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I know that Matt. The
Fri, 04/20/2007 - 20:40I know that Matt.
The point is that here in Spain, a Geographer has not a "mathematical" capacity to study the stability of hillsides because it is not a "science" degree but an "arts graduate" and they are not prepared to assume that charge. So they don´t have conpetence on engineering matters.
So geologists and engineers assume the responsability and study of this kind of issues.
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Here at least that depends
Fri, 04/20/2007 - 21:08Here at least that depends on your choice of degree course- geography can be taught as an arts degree but if it is then it focusses on the social science part of the subject and a graduate wouldn't be in a position to advise about slope stability in the first place. I and many others learn it as a science, and we are indeed expected to know the mathematical side of some of the things we study.
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Sat, 04/21/2007 - 12:48I have been watching the educational program of geographers in Spain, and you are right, Matt. They have the same competencies in that.
 But....we have a different conception of their jobs in my country because we link geographers with "art studies".
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Landslides at Newfoundland
Submitted by javi_geo on Fri, 04/20/2007 - 15:01.I was watching the BBC News when I came across this:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6570000/newsid_6575000/6575077.stm?bw=nb&mp=rm
 It´s very spectacular to see how those houses felt into the sea...........But anybody knows why Geographers hold the job of Geologists (listen the video and what the journalist is talking about)?
 On the other hand, I think that people who live in Los Angeles, California have the same problem near the shoreline, haven´t it?
I have ever seen spectacular cliffs of Los Angeles coasts whith some slumped areas and zones with the typical spoon-shapep cracks (amazing.....) in the movies.
I´m going to look for any picture of the matter.......
Javi
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