Engineering Geology

Editors-in-Chief G.B. Crosta Dipart. di Scienze Geologiche e Geotechnologie, Università degli Studi di Milano, Piazza della Scienza, I-20126 Milano, Italy, Fax: +39 02 644 84273, R.J. Shlemon Roy J. Shlemon & Associates Inc., PO Box 3066, Newport Beach, CA 92659-0620, USA, Fax: 001 949 6755088, Advisory Editor: Y. Kanaori Dept. of Earth Sciences, Yamaguchi University, 1-1 1677 1 Yoshida, 753 8512 Yamaguchi City, Japan, Honorary Editor: W.M.R. Judd 1051 Cumberland Ave., W. Lafayette, IN 47906, USA, Editorial Board: M. Alvarez Grima MTI Holland b.v., Kinderdijk, Netherlands, A. Aydin University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA, C. Carranza-Torres University of Minnesota at Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA, A. Carrara National Research Council (CNR), Bologna, Italy, M. Chigira Kyoto University, Uji-Shi, Japan, J.T. Christian Waban, MA, USA, C. di Prisco Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, H. Einstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, C. Gokceoglu Hacettepe University, Beytepe-Ankara, Turkey, H. Hungr University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, I. Jefferson University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, R.W. Jibson U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Denver, CO, USA, C.H. Juang Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA, P.V. Lade Catholic University of America, Washington, USA, P.G. Marinos National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, S. Martel University of Hawaii at Mãnoa, Honolulu, HI, USA, M. McSaveney GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, V.G. Moon University of Waikato, Waikato Mail Centre, Hamilton, New Zealand, L. Mualchin Placerville, CA, USA, W. Murphy University of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK, G. Ohlmacher Black & Veatch Corporation, Overland Park, KS, USA, M. Pacheco Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, G.F. Panza Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy, R. Pusch GeoDevelopment International AB, Lund, Sweden, A. Shakoor Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA, M. Sorriso-Valvo National Research Council (CNR), BARI, Italy, D. Stead Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, F. Tonon The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA, L. Vallejo University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, R. van Arsdale University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA, Th.W.J. van Asch Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, C.J. van Westen International Inst. for Geo-Information Science & Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, Netherlands, S. Wang Academia Sinica, Beijing, China, J. Wasowski C.N.R. CERIST, Bari, Italy, T.R. West Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, D.J. Williams University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, R.N. Yong North Saanich, BC, Canada, T.L. Youd Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA