In situ pore-pressure evolution during dynamic CPT measurements in soft sediments of the western Baltic Sea

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 213-227

  Seifert, Annedore ^a   Stegmann, Sylvia ^a   Mörz, Tobias ^a   Lange, Matthias ^a   Wever, Thomas ^b   Kopf, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Forschungsanstalt der Bundeswehr fur Wasserschall und Geophysik FWG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRAPPING; CLAY MINERALS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; GASES; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; HEALTH; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PORE PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; SULFATE MINERALS; TESTING;

BALTIC SEA; CHARACTERISATION; CLAY LAYERS; COARSE GRAINED (CG); CONE RESISTANCE; DYNAMIC CONE PENETRATION; DYNAMIC CONE PENETROMETER (DCP); DYNAMIC PROFILING; ECHO SOUNDERS; FLUID SATURATIONS; FREE GASES; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES; GRAVITY CORES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGH WATER; IN-SITU; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); MICROBIAL GAS; NORMALLY CONSOLIDATED; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PORE PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS; PORE SPACES; PRESSURE CURVES; PRESSURE DECAY; PRESSURE EVOLUTION; PRESSURE RESPONSES; PRESSURE SIGNALS; PRESSURE VALUES; SEA BOTTOM; SEDIMENT SAMPLING; SHEAR TESTING; SOFT SEDIMENTS; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6); UNDRAINED; UNDRAINED SHEAR STRENGTH (IGC: D6);

SHEAR STRENGTH;

COHESION; CONE PENETRATION TEST; ECHO SOUNDER; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; PORE PRESSURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SHEAR TEST; STRENGTH; WATER CONTENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; CENTRAL EUROPE; ECKERNFORDE BAY; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; MECKLENBURG BIGHT; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN;

EID: 48449099556     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-008-0102-x     Document Type: Article

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