Mineralogy-swelling potential relationships for expansive shales

Proceedings of Sessions of Geo-Denver 2000 - Advances in Unsaturated Geotechnics, GSP 99

Volumn 287, Issue , 2000, Pages 361-378

  Olsen, Harold W ^a   Krosley, Lisa ^a   Nelson, Karl ^a   Chabrillat, Sabine ^b   Goetz, Alexander F H ^b   Noe, David C ^c  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Senior Engineering Geologist   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LIGHT; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SEED; SHALE;

ATTERBERG LIMITS; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME (CS); COMPRESSION INDICES; CONSOLIDATION TESTS; MOISTURE CONTENT (MC); SMECTITE; STRESS HISTORIES; SURCHARGE LOADING; SWELLING POTENTIAL;

SWELLING;

EID: 0010574531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40510(287)25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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