Mineralogy and chemistry, and their correlation with the geotechnical index properties of Bangkok clay: Comparison with Ariake clay

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-21

  Ohtsubo, Masami ^a   Egashira, Kazuhiko ^a   Koumoto, Tatsuya ^b   Bergado, Dennes T ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Alluvial deposit; Clay mineral; Consistency limits; Marine clay; Salt concentration; Smectite (IGC: B10 D2)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347755949     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.40.11     Document Type: Article

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