Weathering effects on the geotechnical properties of argillaceous sediments in tropical environments and their geomorphological implications

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-66

  Fan, Chen Hui ^a   Allison, Robert J ^b   Jones, Mervyn E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical state model; Geotechnics; Scaly clay; Tropical environments; Weathering

Indexed keywords

ARGILLACEOUS ROCK; CLAY; CRITICAL STATE; CRITICAL STATE MODEL; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES; JOE'S RIVER FORMATION; LANDFORM DEVELOPMENT; LICHI MELANGE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WEATHERING;

BARBADOS; TAIWAN;

EID: 0029773532     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199601)21:1<49::AID-ESP541>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Aires-Barros, L. and Mourza-Miranda, A. 1989. 'Weathering and weatherability of rocks and its significance in geotechnics', in Balasubramaniam, K. S. (Ed.), Weathering: its Products and Deposits, Theophrastus, Athens, 605-645.
2. Allison, R. J. and Goudie, A. S. 1994. 'The effects of fire on rock weathering: an experimental study', in Robinson, D. A. and Williams, R. B. G. (Eds), Rock Weathering and Landform Evolution, John Wiley, Chichester, 41-56.
3. Atkinson, J. H. and Bransby, P. L. 1978. The Mechanics of Soils. An Introduction to Critical State Soil Mechanics, McGraw-Hill, Maidenhead, 175.
4. Biq, C. 1984. 'Present day manner of movement of the Coastal Range, eastern Taiwan', Memoirs of the Geological Survey of China, 6, 35-40.
5. Brenner, R. P., Nutalaya, P., Chilingarin, G. V. and Robertson, J. D. 1981. 'Engineering geology of soft clay', in Brand, E. W. and Brenner, R. P. (Eds), Soft Clay Engineering, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 159-240.
6. British Standards Institution 1377. 1990a. Methods of Test for Soils for Civil Engineering Purposes Part 2. Classification Tests, HMSO, London, 64.
7. British Standards Institution 1377. 1990b. Methods of Test for Soils for Civil Engineering Purposes Part 6. Consolidation and Permeability Tests in Hydraulic Cells and with Pore Pressure Measurement, HMSO, London, 64.
8. Brown, K. and Westbrook, G. 1987. 'The tectonic fabric of the Barbados Ridge Accretionary Complex', Marine and Petroleum Geology, 4, 71-81.
9. Caine, N. 1979. 'Rock weathering rates at the soil surface in an alpine environment', Catena, 6, 131-144.
10. De Beaucourt, F. 1972. 'Relations entre les altérations des pierres calcaires et certaines des leurs charactéristiques', Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on the Deterioration of Building Stone, La Rochelle, 215-216.
11. Ebuck, E. J., Hencher, S. R. and Lumsden, A. C. 1990. 'The influence of structure on the shearing mechanism of weakly bonded soils', in Cripps, J. C. and Moon, C. F. (Eds), The Engineering Geology of Weak Rock, Geological Society Engineering Group, London, 242-253.
12. El-Sohby, M. A., Mazen, S. O. and Aboushook, M. I. 1990. 'Deformational characteristics of some weakly cemented and over-consolidated soil formations', in Cripps, J. C. and Moon, C. F. (Eds), The Engineering Geology of Weak Rock, Geological Society Engineering Group, London, 155-163.
13. Enriquez-Reyes, M. P., Allison, R. J. and Jones, M. E. 1990. 'Slope stability in scaly clay terrains', in Cripps, J. C. and Moon, C. F. (Eds), The Engineering Geology of Weak Rock, Geological Society Engineering Group, London, 422-432.
14. Farmer, I. 1983. Engineering Behaviour or Rocks, Chapman & Hall, London, 208.
15. Goudie, A. S. 1993. 'Salt weathering simulation using a single-immersion technique', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 18, 369-376.
16. Goudie, A. S., Allison, R. J. and McLaren, S. 1992. 'The relations between modulus of elasticity and temperature in the context of the experimental simulation of rock weathering by fire', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 17, 605-616.
17. Hall, K. 1986. 'Rock moisture content in the field and in the laboratory and its relationship to mechanical weathering studies', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 11, 131-142.
18. Hall, K. 1988. 'A laboratory simulation of rock breakdown due to freeze thaw in a maritime Antarctic environment', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 13, 369-382.
19. Ho, C. S. 1987. 'A synthesis of the geological evolution of Taiwan', Memoirs of the Geological Survey of China, 9, 1-18.
20. Lambe and Whitman. 1979. Soil Mechanics, SI Version, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 553.
21. Laure, D. K. and Speed, R. C. 1984. 'Structure of the accretionary complex of Barbados: Bissex Hill', Geological Society of America Bulletin, 95, 1360-1372.
22. Lin, J. C. 1981. Landslides of the Coastal Range, Eastern Taiwan, unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of London, 511.
23. McCarroll, D. 1990. 'Differential weathering of feldspar and pyroxene in an arctic-alpine environment', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 15, 641-651.
24. Motteshead, D. N. 1989. 'Rates and patterns of bedrock denudation by coastal salt spray weathering, a seven year record', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 14, 383-398.
25. Pentecost, A. 1991. 'The weathering rates of some sandstone cliffs, central Weald, England', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 16, 83-91.
26. Pudsey, C. J. and Reading, H. G. 1981. Sedimentology of the Scotland Group, Barbados, Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 10, 291-308.
27. Selby, M. J. 1993. Hillslope Materials and Processes, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 451.
28. Sjöberg, R. and Broadbent, N. 1991. 'Measurement and calibration of weathering, using a Schmidt hammer on wave washed moraines on the Upper Norrland coast, Sweden', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 16, 57-64.
29. Smith, B. J. and McGreevy, J. P. 1988. 'Contour scaling of a sandstone by salt weathering under simulated hot desert conditions', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 13, 697-705.
30. Speed, R. C. 1983. 'Structure of the accretionary complex of Barbados, I: Chalky Mount', Geological Society of America Bulletin, 94, 92-116.
31. Tanner, W. F. 1989. 'National decementation of quartzites', in Balasubramaniam, K. S. (Ed.), Weathering: its Products and Deposits, Theophrastus, Athens, 457-462.
32. Trudgill, S. T., Viles, H. A., Inkpen, R. J. and Cooke, R. U. 1989. 'Remeasurement of weathering rates St Paul's Cathedral, London', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 14, 175-196.
33. Westbrook, G. K. and Smith, M. J. 1983. 'Long decollements and mud volcanoes: evidence from the Barbados ridge complex for the role of high pore fluid pressure in the development of an accretionary complex', Geology, 11, 297-283.
34. Wood, D. M. 1990. Soil Behaviour and Critical State Soil Mechanics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 462.