Steeply dipping heaving bedrock, Colorado: Part 3 - Environmental controls and heaving processes

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 325-344

  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

Colorado; Dipping rock; Expansive rock; Geological process; Geotechnical; Heaving ground

Indexed keywords

CLAY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GYPSUM; LANDFORMS; OXIDATION; PYRITES; STRESSES; SWELLING; WETTING;

BEDROCK; BENTONITE; CLAY MINERAL; CLAYSTONE; GYPSUM; HEAVE; HYDRATION; OXIDATION; PYRITE; STRESS ANALYSIS; SWELLING; WEATHERING; WETTING;

COLORADO; DENVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37349121062     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.13.4.325     Document Type: Article

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