An Engineering Geological Investigation of Footwall Toe-Buckle Instability at the Malvern Hills Opencast Coal Mine, Inland Canterbury
Abstract A small opencast coal mine has been developed over previous underground workings in the Malvern Hills, inland Canterbury, New Zealand. The coal measure strata dip at ~45° to the southeast, and consist of finely laminated mudrocks with multiple coal seams of varying thickness. Production...
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University of Canterbury. Geological Sciences
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1144 |