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• The Economic Geology of The Central Coalfield Of Scotland, Area IX: Carluke, Strathaven, And Larkhall, With Braidwood, Netherburn, Auchenheath, Blackwood, And Stonehouse (Edinburgh: Printed under authority of HMSO by Morrison and Gibb, 1921), by L. W. Hinxman, R. G. Carruthers, Murray Macgregor, and C. H. Dinham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Informe Relativo al Estado Económico y Situación de los Obreros de las Minas y Fábricas Metalúrgicas de España y Organismos de Protección Instituídos en Beneficio de los Mismos (in Spanish; Madrid: Est. Tip. de El Liberal, 1911), by Consejo de Minería y Metalurgia (Spain)
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• Engineering Geology Field Manual (second edition, 2 volumes; Washington: US Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 1998-2001) (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)

• Planning and Engineering Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofitting of Historic Adobe Structures (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2000), by E. Leroy Tolles, Edna E. Kimbro, and William S. Ginell (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adobe Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2000), by E. Leroy Tolles, Edna E. Kimbro, Frederick A. Webster, and William S. Ginell (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Reducing Earthquake Losses (OTA-ETI-623; 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criteria for Evaluating the Implementation Plan Required By the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Example Applications of the NEHRP Guidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings (Washington: Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1999), by Applied Technology Council (page images at HathiTrust)

• Example Applications of the NEHRP Guidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings (Washington: Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1999), by Applied Technology Council (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reducing Earthquake Losses (OTA-ETI-623; 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Living With Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest (second edition; Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, c2004), by Robert S. Yeats (PDF at oregonstate.edu)

• Seismic Design and Evaluation Guidelines for the Department of Energy High-Level Waste Storage Tanks and Appurtenances (1995), by K. K. Bandyopadhyay, A. Cornell, C. Constantino, R. Kennedy, C. Miller, and A. S. Veletsos (PDF at osti.gov)
• Advanced Design in Structural Steel (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960), by John E. Lothers (page images at HathiTrust)

• River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon (1996), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Review of the Draft Federal Long-Term Monitoring Plan for the Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam (1994), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Construction of Hoover Dam: Preliminary Investigations, Design of Dam, and Progress of Construction (Washington: GPO, 1933), by Ray L. Wilbur, Elwood Mead, and United States Department of the Interior
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• Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity: Letter From the Secretary of the Interior Transmitting Pursuant to Law a Report by the Director of the Reclamation Service on Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity With Respect to Irrigation from the Colorado; Together With the Proceedings of the Conference on the Construction of the Boulder Canyon Dam Held at San Diego, Calif. (Washington: GPO, 1922), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Review of the Draft Federal Long-Term Monitoring Plan for the Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam (1994), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon (1996), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don't Want You to Know (second edition, 1993), ed. by Margaret Barber and Gráinne Ryder (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Damming Grand Canyon: The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by Diane E. Boyer and Robert H. Webb (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Kentucky Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction and Initial Operations of the Kentucky Project (TVA technical report #13; Washington: GPO, 1951), by Tennessee Valley Authority (page images at HathiTrust)

• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Nile Reservoir Dam at Assuân, and After (second edition; London: E. and F. N. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1903), by William Willcocks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Assuân Reservoir and Lake Moeris (London: E. and F. N. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1904), by William Willcocks
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Palisades Dam and Reservoir Project: Hearings Before a Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Public Lands, House of Representatives, and a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-First Congress, 1st Session, on H. R. 5506 (Washington: GPO, 1949), by United States House Committee on Public Lands and United States Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kortes Dam and Powerplant: Technical Record of Design and Construction (1959), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fish Passage Technologies: Protection at Hydropower Facilities (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
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• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Closely Spaced Piles as a Breakwater (Berkeley: University of California, Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, Wave Research Projects, 1961), by Robert L. Wiegel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Habitability of the Love Canal Area: An Analysis of the Technical Basis for the Decision on the Habitability of the Emergency Declaration Area (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
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  • PDF files at Princeton

• Earth Pressures and Retaining Walls (New York: Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1957), by Whitney Clark Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rock Tunneling With Steel Supports; With An Introduction to Tunnel Geology (Youngstown, OH: Commercial Shearing and Stamping Co., 1946), by Robert V. Proctor, Thomas L. White, and Karl Terzaghi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geotechnical Site Investigations for Underground Projects, by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Clandestine Service History: The Berlin Tunnel Operation, 1952-1956 (written in 1967; redacted declassified version released 2017), by United States Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Operations (PDF at cia.gov)

• Pothole Blasting for Wildlife (Wisconsin Conservation Dept. Publication 352; 1965), by Harold A. Mathiak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Control of Explosives: Administration and Execution of the Laws Pertaining to the Control of Explosives: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session (10 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1976), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Geotechnical Site Investigations for Underground Projects, by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Rock Fractures and Fluid Flow: Contemporary Understanding and Applications (1996), by National Research Council Committee on Fracture Characterization and Fluid Flow (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Principles of Soil Mechanics (Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley, c1963), by Ronald F. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soil Mechanics (Princeton, NJ et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1962), by Alfreds R. Jumikis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subsurface Exploration and Sampling of Soils for Civil Engineering Purposes: Report on a Research Project of the Committee on Sampling and Testing, Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division, American Society of Civil Engineers (Vicksburg, MS: Waterways Experiment Station, 1949), by Mikael Juul Hvorslev and American Society of Civil Engineers Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1948), by Donald W. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earth Pressures and Retaining Walls (New York: Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1957), by Whitney Clark Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ore Microscopy and Ore Petrography (second edition; New York et al.: J. Wiley and Sons, c1994), by James R. Craig and David J. Vaughan (PDF files with commentary at minsocam.org)

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