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1. Models offered by natural caverns: caves
1.1 Types of land concerned
Caves have been frequented by man since prehistoric times (the so-called "cave man"), as well as by many animals, such as the Entremont bears in the pre-Alpine Chartreuse massif. Most of these cavities, which can be very large, are the result of the dissolution of rocks that are at least partially soluble: saline rocks, rock salt, gypsum and, above all, carbonate rocks, whose solubility increases significantly with carbonic acid content (table 1 ). As the vast majority of these cavities are found in limestone rocks, they are often referred to as karstic, after the Karst, the limestone mountainous region of the Alpine chain in Slovenia and neighbouring countries. Non-karst natural cavities include...
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Bibliography
Websites
DUFFAUT Pierre 2005 – Engineering of large and deep rock caverns for physics research http://nnn05.in2p3.fr/schedule.html
HOEK Evert https://www.rocscience.com/learning/hoeks-corner
NAKAGAWA Tetsuo, 2005...
Events
SIM Annual Meeting, Société de l'Industrie Minérale, http://www.lasim.org
Annual Congress of ITA-AITES, International Tunnel and Underground Space Association, http://www.ita-aites.org
ACUUS Congress, Associated research centers for the urban underground space, http://www.acuus.qc.ca
Regulations
Mining Code, Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry, 50 p.
Directory
French Tunnel and Underground Space Association, http://www.aftes.asso.fr
CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, http://www.cern.ch
French Rock Mechanics Committee, http://.cfmr-roches.org
Géostock, formerly Société française de stockage géologique, now part of the Vinci Group, http://www.geostockgroup.com
ISRM, International...
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