- erosion, and it has poor
mechanical properties,
making construction on
silty soil problematic. The
failure of the
Teton Dam in 1976 has been attributed...
- present: clay, silt, or sand).
These tests are
mainly used on
clayey or
silty soils since these are the
soils which expand and
shrink when the moisture...
-
result in
different types of loam soils:
sandy loam,
silty loam, clay loam,
sandy clay loam,
silty clay loam, and loam. In the
United States Department...
-
southeastern United States. It is
largely formed of
barrier beaches and the
silty outwash of the Cape Fear
River as it
drains the
southeast coast of North...
-
siltstone and
silty dolomite that
occurs in beds that are 2 in (5.1 cm) to 5 ft (1.5 m) thick.
Within the Formation,
layers of dark grayish-orange
silty dolomite...
-
constituent materials stone fragments,
gravel and sand fine sand
silty or
clayey gravel and sand
silty soils clayey soils General rating as a
subgrade excellent...
- to as "Gumbo Flats",
derived from its soil,
which though very rich and
silty,
resembled gumbo when wet. Present-day
Chesterfield is
known to have been...
- whitewater, and
underwater hazards are
difficult to detect, due to the
silty nature of the
glacial runoff that
comprises most of the river. The entire...
-
lives to
depths of 80
meters (262 feet) in
coral reef flats,
sandy and
silty sediments which contain seaweed,
invertebrates and
corals or
sponges that...
-
recovered from the Glen
Canyon Group sequence and it is
delimited mostly to the
silty facies of the Lower-Middle Part of the formation. This
Fauna is
rather scarce...
