Engineering Geology and Geomechanics

This trip involved 2 professors and 12 graduate students from the Dept. of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering at Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada).

During the 18 day trip through 5 countries the group travelled over 3300 km visiting an underground mine and a large marble quarry, each with 2000 years of operational history, 10 dam sites, 7 large landslides and many rockfall hazard zones, 7 active tunnel construction sites and hundreds of completed tunnels and bridges, 1 nuclear storage research lab (URL), 3 active TBMs and dozens under construction, 18 high alpine passes, the Tower of Pisa, the "sinking" city of Venice, 4 castle-fortresses and lots and lots of Geology.

Acknowledgements

This trip could not have taken place without the assistance of the Queen's Geology Field Trip Fund and the assistance of the following organizations and individuals:

NAGRA, Herrenknecht, AlpTransit, Consorzio d’Ingegneri ITC-ITECSA, Gonzen Mine, Consorzia Galleria Roveredo, KWO, Condotte, ETHZ, Nant de Drance

and special thanks to

Werner Berger,
Helmut Wannenmacher, Jens Classen, Markus Wei, Simon Loew, Andrew Kos, Florian Amman, Hans Eberli, Giovanni Barla, Renata Spitznagel, Peter Rudigier, Markus Weissenberger, Heinz Sager, Eng. F.Gemetto, Claude Schellmann, Michael Hassler, Christian Draeger, Giuseppe di Gasperis,

and many more...

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