Objective Objectives: 1- To determine the controlling processes of land subsidence arising from solution of gypsum and other evaporite rocks. 2- To devise management techniques for preventing land subsidence in areas underlain by evaporites. 3- To develop risk assessment and zonation criteria to be used in mapping hazardous areas. While assessment schemes for other causes of land subsidence exist, no such scheme has been developed for subsidence due to dissolution of evaporites (most usually gypsum). This is unfortunate, since subsidence due to evaporite dissolution is very widespread in Europe. Risk assessments for this hazard can only be undertaken if there is a scientific, process-based, understanding of the principal factors controlling the phenomenon. Predictions of the response of a given system to future conditions (which differ markedly from those presently observed) can only be made with any confidence where the physics of the system is understood. With these principles in mind, ROSES will provide a framework for the collation of results of previous field studies, and for the collection of supplementary field and laboratory evidence on evaporite dissolution processes. These data will be analysed using innovative conceptual and mathematical modelling techniques, to deduce the controlling processes for void growth and collapse in evaporite terrains. Once the key processes governing subsidence risk have been identified, it will be necessary to formulate technical responses for the most common hazards. These responses will be identified in ROSES, drawing upon established geotechnical practices in other subsidence-prone terrains (eg limestone karst, mined land etc), adapting them as necessary for the particular physical (eg rock strength) and chemical (eg salinity of waters) circumstances to be expected in evaporite terrains. Experience with other types of subsidence suggests that there will be considerable local variation in the degree of subsidence risk within areas underlain by evaporites. It is therefore desirable to be able to delineate zones with different levels of risk to provide a basis for land-use planning and technical intervention. ROSES will thus provide the mapping methodology for the delineation of such zones. We will disseminate the results of ROSES to relevant industrial practitioners (planners, engineers etc) in the form of a practical manual describing the use of the new methodologies. Fields of science natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsmathematical model Programme(s) FP4-ENV 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 020301 - Hydrological and hydrogeological risks Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Address Cassie building, claremont road NE1 7RU Newcastle upon tyne United Kingdom See on map EU contribution No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Institute of Geological Sciences - National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ukraine EU contribution € 0,00 Address 55 b,gontchar street 252054 Kiev See on map Other funding No data NERC British Geological Survey United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Nicker hill NG12 5GG Keyworth See on map Other funding No data THE UNIVERSITY OF TUEBINGEN Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 17,sigwartstrasse 10 72074 Tuebingen See on map Other funding No data UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address 12,pedro cerbuna 12 50009 Zaragoza See on map Other funding No data
