Particularity of plasticity characteristics of fine glacial materials (North Chicago area)

Geo-Eco-Marina

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 59-66

  Constantinescu, Juliana ^a   Constantinescu, Damian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atterberg limits; Boulton T line; Glacio clastic processes; Minimum efficient clay ratio; Minimum void ratio; Plasticity chart

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879104993     PISSN: 12246808     EISSN: 22482776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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