Improving the jar slake, slake index, and slake durability tests for shales

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 385-396

  Santi, Paul M ^a  

^a Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Clay shales; Durability; Shales; Slaking

Indexed keywords

DURABILITY; SHALE; SLAKING;

EID: 0032439062     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.iv.3.385     Document Type: Article

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