Engineering Geology In Tasmania: A Review

Infrastructure assembled since the European settlement of Tasmania in 1803 has been required to cope with a diverse and complex geology. Tasmania is a relatively small island but the superimposition of a complex structural and climatic history sets the stage for significant problems. These fall into four main categories: fractured and deformed rocks, the notorious and variable Jurassic dolerite, unstable Tertiary rift sediments and Pleistocene valley, slope and glacial deposits. This review offers an outline of how the problems arose, their character and material properties, and the means of resolution, or lack of resolution, past and present.