Deep-sea sediment compression curves: Some controlling factors, spurious overconsolidation, predictions, and geophysical reproduction

Marine Georesources and Geotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-81

  Buchan, Sinclair ^a   Smith, Denzil Taylor ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustics carbonate electrical resistivity mineralogy north atlantic overconsolidation sand fraction silty clays void index

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; CARBONATE MINERALS; CLAY; CLAY MINERALS; COMPRESSIBILITY OF SOLIDS; CONSOLIDATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; SAND; UNDERWATER MINERALOGY;

OEDOMETER TESTS; SAND FRACTION; VOID INDEX;

UNDERWATER SOILS;

COMPRESSION; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; OVERCONSOLIDATION; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SILTY CLAY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032814802     PISSN: 1064119X     EISSN: 15210618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106411999274016     Document Type: Article

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