Clarke, BG orcid.org/0000-0001-9493-9200 (2018) The engineering properties of glacial tills. Geotechnical Research, 5 (4). pp. 262-277. ISSN 2052-6156
Abstract
Glacial tills are a product of the glacial processes of erosion, transportation and deposition and could have been subjected to several glacial cycles and periglacial processes to the extent that they are complex, hazardous soils that are spatially variable in composition, structure, fabric and properties, making them very difficult to sample, test and classify. An overview of the formation of glacial tills and their properties shows that they are composite soils which should be classified according to their lithology, their mode of deposition to link the glacial processes with the facies characteristics and their engineering behaviour. This enables representative design properties to be assigned using frameworks developed for composite soils.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Published with permission by the ICE under the CC-BY 4.0 license. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Geology, geotechnical engineering, site investigation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Civil Engineering (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 May 2018 14:30 |
Last Modified: | 01 Feb 2019 14:52 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Thomas Telford (ICE Publishing) |
Identification Number: | 10.1680/jgere.18.00020 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:130385 |