Muskeg Engineering Handbook / / ed. by Ivan MacFarlane.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• HerausgeberIn: MacFarlane, Ivan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Contributors --; Glossary of Terms --; Symbols --; 1. Muskeg as an Engineering Problem --; 2. Classification of Muskeg --; 3. Airphoto Interpretation of Muskeg --; 4. Engineering Characteristics of Peat --; 5. Preliminary Engineering Investigations --; 6. Road and Railway Construction --; 7. Special Construction Problems --; 8. Trafficability and Vehicle Mobility --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442654129; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442654129
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ivan MacFarlane.

Canada includes within her boundaries at least 500,000 square miles of muskeg (peat-land). Only in recent years, to keep pace with the rapid development of the north has this remarkable organic terrain been subject to scientific study. This handbook is a compendium of the recommendations and conclusions of annual muskeg conferences (sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada) which have been held since 1955. It has been written by experts in various aspects of muskeg research and practice and is an ideal guide for engineers involved with the problems of constructing buildings, railways, highways and airstrips on muskeg. (Canadian Building Series No. 3)