Question

soil mechanics

I. Prepare a desk study for the following site location. Fanham Park in Camden. Sources you need to obtain are as follows, Surficial geology maps, Bedrock Geology maps and Topographic maps for the Camden County from USGS. Observe the maps and give a summary of the surficial geology and bedrock geology on your own words with regards to the history of the area. Make sure to include, among other things: o Geology of the bedrock Kind of bedrock . " Age and origin Depth . Any special soil conditions in the neighborhood (e.g. watershed contaminated soils, etc.)

Answer 1

he park began as an initiative from the Women's Park association. They began to lobby the City council to purchase the land in the Red Hill for a public park in May 1901. The land was owned by the Parkside Land and Improvement Company. The Park associations plea was heard and negotiations went underway but quickly reached an impasse between the City council and the Parkside Land and Improvement company over the price of the land. The proposed land purchase became politicized resulting in Mayor Nowrey resigning from office rather than signing the purchasing bill of the land. The purchase was completed in 1904 for the price of $90,000.The park was renamed to Farnham Park on December 01, 1927 to honor the Levi Farnham, the city engineer of 30 years.For 30 years, the park was also home to a George Washington statue which was moved downtown in the 1980s due to continued vandalism

Bedrock is made up of igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic rock, and it often serves as the parent material (the source of rock and mineral fragments) for regolith and soil. Bedrock is also a source of nitrogen in Earth’s nitrogen cycle. A bedrock deposit that occurs at Earth’s surface is called an outcrop.

The processes of weathering and erosion affect bedrock. Outcrops exposed to wind and water are often decomposed, or weathered, over time into regolith or smaller particles. In environmentscharacterized by humid conditions that extend for many thousands to millions of years, water may penetrate deep into bedrock to form saprolite, a rock made from the consolidation of clay mineralsthat remain from the chemical weathering process. The weathering of bedrock also frees large amounts of nitrogen that can be taken up by plants and other forms of life,