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Salt weathering hazards. By ANDREW GOUDIE and HEATHER VILES.
Chichester: Wiley, 1997, 241 pp, L45.00. ISBN 0 471 95842 5
Salt weathering hazards is a study of the nature and effects of salt weathering in both the natural and anthropogenic world. The book addresses the processes and problems of salt attack and how this hazard can be controlled. It is aimed at a wide audience including geomorphologists, building conservationists, environmental managers, planners and engineers, and is easy for all to comprehend.
The book has seven chapters, the first of which opens with a general review of salt weathering as a hazard, followed by an examination of how this weathering problem is becoming worse, largely as a result of human activities such as irrigation. In Chapter Two fourteen case studies are briefly outlined which the authors...