Abstract:
By means of the traditional geologic
approaches as they are the characterization of geologic
estratigraphical and structural discontinuities, the petrographic and
geomorphological characteristic, the conditions of stability and the
elaboration of geological maps, it is possible to define such
parameters of geological risk as Natural Risk Index (NRI) and the
Safety Factor (SF), and through them, to establish the corresponding
protection areas and their characteristics about the different human
uses, be already industrial, urbanistic or touristic, to prevent and
avoid the geological deterioration of the cavities and, in
consequence, of the samples of prehistoric art that content.
The experience and research works in the Altamira Cave and El Castillo
Cave Areas in Cantabria, and in the Tito Bustillo Cave Area in
Asturias, North of Spain, carried out by the Engineering Geology
Group, will be presented.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Was born on 1949 in Lugo, Galicia,
North of Spain. Graduate in Geology (1976) and Doctorate in Geology
(1980) in the University of Oviedo, Asturias.
Since 1977, as a member of the Applied Geology Group of the University
of Cantabria, participate in many civil engineering projects, mainly
in motorways, large dams foundations, geological risk in hydraulic
works and, finally, since 1999, in the geological risk research around
the main prehistoric caves in the North of Spain.
Since 1983, Professor of Engineering Geology in the Civil Engineering
School of the University of Cantabria, and since 1993 Prof. of Dam
Geology in the Master of Engineering Geology, Geological Faculty of
the University of Madrid. Member of the Cantabria International
Institute for Prehistoric Research.
Actually, Director of the Ground Engineering and Material Sciences
Department of the Cantabria University. |
