In areas of soft clay such as Norway the use of conventional techniques in soil exploration provides too pessimistic an assessment of the soil conditions, and it is therefore a worthwhile investment to use the most up-to-date methods even on everyday consulting jobs. It was only by the ...
I am, however, concerned that geology is in some danger of losing that breadth. We hear so often now that we need to be teaching students to do very specific tasks, so that they will be trained for particular technical jobs – they need to know how to use very complicated and specialize...