Changes in late Pleistocene-Holocene sedimentary facies of the Mekong River Delta and the influence of sedimentary environment on geotechnical engineering properties

Engineering Geology

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 146-159

  Truong, Minh Hoang ^a   Nguyen, Van Lap ^b   Ta, Thi Kim Oanh ^b   Takemura, Jiro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Viet Nam)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Facies; Geotechnical properties; Holocene; Mekong River Delta; Sedimentary environment

Indexed keywords

FACIES; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES; HOLOCENES; MEKONG RIVER; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ESTUARIES; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; HYDRODYNAMICS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; SILT; SOIL TESTING; TIDES; WETLANDS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

COHESIONLESS SOIL; COHESIVE SOIL; CONE PENETRATION TEST; FACIES; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; HYDRODYNAMICS; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; STRENGTH;

MEKONG RIVER;

EID: 80053299453     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2011.05.012     Document Type: Review

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