Steeply dipping heaving bedrock, Colorado: Part 2 - Mineralogical and engineering properties

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 309-324

  Noe, David C ^a   Higgins, Jerry D ^b   Olsen, Harold W ^b  

^a Senior Engineering Geologist   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Clay mineralogy; Colorado; Dipping rock; Engineering properties; Geotechnical; Heaving ground

Indexed keywords

BENTONITE; CLAY; CONSOLIDATION; HYDROMETERS; MINERALOGY; MOISTURE; SILT; SWELLING;

ACCESSORY MINERAL; BEDROCK; BENTONITE; CLAYSTONE; DENSITY; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; HEAVE; HYDROMETRY; MINERALOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; SMECTITE;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37349020769     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.13.4.309     Document Type: Article

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