Weekend CUP for August 22, 2013 22 Aug 2013 | 05:11 pm

Summer is coming to a close and it's time to start clearing the decks. Here are some 67 articles that I came across earlier this summer that GeoPrac readers might find interesting. Enjoy! Award winne...

The oldest and 'biggest ever' asteroid crater discovered in Greenland 20 Aug 2013 | 01:10 am

A team of geologists from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) in Copenhagen, Cardiff University in Wales, Lund University in Sweden and the Institute of Planetary Science in Moscow h...

Video: Sinkhole swallows Florida resort building 19 Aug 2013 | 06:24 am

Audit: Federal agency failed in oversight of port expansion in Anchorage 15 Aug 2013 | 10:33 am

The U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General released a scathing audit report on the troubled Port of Anchorage expansion project and the obscure federal agency that was supposed to be over...

Ground Freezing proposed to stop radioactive groundwater at Fukushima Nuclear Plant 9 Aug 2013 | 10:26 am

New leaks into the groundwater have been detected at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan that experienced a triple meltdown in 2011 after an earthquake and Tsunami. The plant's operator...

Ressi di Cervia Named 2013 DFI Distinguished Service Award Recipient 7 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm

Hawthorne, NJ (August 1, 2013): Arturo L. Ressi di Cervia is the recipient of DFI’s highest award to an individual, the Distinguished Service Award. He is the 33rd recipient of the award, designated f...

Pile Supported Raft Foundation in Burj Khalifa 1 Aug 2013 | 10:29 am

The Burj Khalifa is founded on pile supported raft foundation consisting of 194 bored-in-situ piles or drilled shafts as we commonly call them in the US with a 12 foot thick mat. The piles were 1.5 me...

Geotechnical investigation and recommendations complete for US 89 Bitter Springs Landslide 30 Jul 2013 | 10:52 am

The geotechnical investigations and report are complete for the US 89 Bitter Springs Landslide south of Page, Arizona. ADOT published a news release with the results of Kleinfelder's geotechnical inve...

ADSC Technical Library Catalog 30 Jul 2013 | 10:35 am

The Association of Drilled Shaft Contractors or ADSC has a catalog of their technical library available through their website. ADSC has countless useful publications for drilled shaft designers, most ...

Arizona Land Subsidence Monitoring Report 25 Jul 2013 | 01:29 pm

The Arizona Department of Water Resources has an excellent program to monitor a somewhat unique geologic hazard - land subsidence. Caused by compaction of valley sediments in areas of declining ground...