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Shanghai coastal area, as the leading development region of Shanghai, has been constructed more and more engineering projects in recent years. However, its engineering geological conditions are complicated and not been well understood by far, as many geological problems occurred during project construction. Therefore, it is quite necessary for project designers and decision-makers to have a reasonable evaluation results on the engineering geological condition of this area. With the information of about 1,000 boreholes and almost 100 years’ underwater topographic maps of Shanghai coastal area, this paper aims to assess the suitability of building project, underground engineer, and underwater pipe lines construction by analyzing the engineering geological condition, summarizing the character of environmental geological problems, and establishing an engineering geological stratigraphic sequence.
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I would express my gratitude to Ministry of Land and Resources of China, and China Geological Survey, who sponsored geological investigation in Shanghai coastal, so that we can get so much geological information. I gratefully acknowledge the help of my supervisors in my university and institute. I do appreciate their patience, encouragement, and professional instructions during my writing. In addition, I deeply appreciate the contribution to this paper made in various ways by my colleagues.
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Shi, Y.J., Yan, X.X., Wang, J.H., Fang, Z., Li, B. (2013). Evaluation of Engineering Geological Condition in Shanghai Coastal Area. In: Huang, Y., Wu, F., Shi, Z., Ye, B. (eds) New Frontiers in Engineering Geology and the Environment. Springer Geology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31671-5_23
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