Engineering-geological research creates new data about the geological environment, expanding our knowledge about rocks and pounds, their role and behavior in various natural and technogenic processes. This information creates new opportunities for structural constructions and identification of new laws of geological space organization, among which the stratigraphic (historical-genetic) form of organization is only one of the possible ones. Engineering-geological data can be used to create multidimensional structural fields and study the laws of their organization. For this purpose, it is necessary to create on a system basis engineering-geological stratification, which should be docked with the entire sum of geological knowledge and provide a smooth and rational transition from the systems of the upper hierarchical level to the systems and elements underlying a variety of calculation models.
The composition, methodology and results of engineering-geological research under the Marine Environmental Patrol program for 1990-1994 in the Baltic Sea are considered. The results of some model experiments and calculations for the seabed soils in the areas of flooding of hazardous technogenic objects are discussed.
The axiomatics of engineering geology is considered on the basis of its connection with the main categories of materialistic dialectics. In practical aspect this axiomatics is connected with the peculiarities of engineering geology specialist's work in theoretical and practical plans.
On the initiative of the All-Union Geological Institute named after A.P.Karpinsky, supported by the Central Scientific Research Institute of Shipbuilding named after A.N.Krylov, from September 5 to 12, 1990 were conducted experimental complex geo-ecological studies in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland.
In the field of engineering geology the most difficult problem is the synthesis of knowledge embedded in the characterization and evaluation of any territory in terms of planning and placement of various types of structures; making regional forecasts of changes in engineering and geological conditions; development of rules, norms, technical and methodological guidelines for the production of engineering surveys; planning the production of more detailed engineering surveys in individual areas, etc.
Glacial shelves, understood here as seabed areas underlain by glaciers during certain stages of the Quaternary period, include the bottoms of a number of intracontinental basins, such as the Baltic and White Sea.
In connection with the ever-increasing attempts to use the systems approach in engineering geological research, an important task of analyzing and defining the appropriate range of concepts and terms, on the basis of which it would be possible to set new problems and search for new solutions.
In connection with the ever-increasing attempts to use system methodology in engineering-geological research, an important task of analyzing and defining the appropriate range of concepts and terms, on the basis of which it would be possible to set new problems and search for new solutions.
Relatively shallow areas of the Barents, White and Baltic Seas due to the commonality of the main stages of their late geological development belong to a single glacial zone of the European glaciation center.
In geotechnical engineering research, maps play an extremely important role in establishing and tracing relationships between the various components of engineering geologic conditions.
In the situation of intensification of theoretical research of all Earth sciences (this is the difference, according to B.M.Kedrov, the era of STD from the previous epochs of development of scientific meaning), it is difficult for each separate science to defend its independence, it is difficult to fight the tendencies of merging with other related sciences, although such tendencies are based on very vague ideas about complex tasks, complex natural systems, about intersecting and interpenetrating geospheres ...
