Swelling properties of Ankara (Turkey) clay with carbonate concretions

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-93

  Avsar, Elif ^a   Ulusay, Resat ^a   Erguler, Zeynal Abiddin ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ankara clay; Carbonate concretion; Prediction equation; Swelling map; Swelling percentage; Swelling pressure; Turkey

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERAL; SWELLING;

ANKARA; AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

EID: 16444384531     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/11.1.73     Document Type: Article

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