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There are five major specialty areas that deal with engineering in soil and/or rock:
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4. Geoenvironmental Engineering: environment pollution management, landfill
engineering and environmental reclamation.
The boundaries between the first three specialties are blurred, given a largely
common theoretical basis and a similarity of the problems solved (e.g. slope
stability assessment for natural slopes vs. man-made slopes for road construction
or open pit mining).
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A web search for Geomechanical Engineering jobs will lead to a major Oil and
Gas operator or a reservoir engineering services provider. In the Oil and Gas
Industry Geomechanics is becoming increasingly important (read more on
this here).
Rock and soil engineering specialities will continue to evolve, and, perhaps, in few
years we will group them differently and under the new names!