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Suggested Practice for Description of Frozen Soils (Visual-Manual Procedure)
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual classifications.
- soil classifications.
- Soils.
- Frozen Soils.
- Soil.
- Soil classifications.
- Frozen soils.
- Medical Subjects:
- Soil.
- Local Subjects:
- Soil classifications.
- Visual classifications.
- Frozen soils.
- Genre:
- Standards (Reference works)
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (6 pages) illustrations, figures, tables
- Contained In:
- ASTM Standards Library
- Place of Publication:
- West Conshohocken, Pa. ASTM International 1978
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- A standard practice is suggested for the description of frozen soils that is essentially identical to that in the National Research Council of Canada's "Guide to a Field Description of Permafrost for Engineering Purposes" and is also identical to U.S. Department of Defense Military Standard MIL-STD-619B, Unified Soil Classification System for Roads, Airfields, Embankments, and Foundations. The practice covers description of the soil phase, description of the frozen soil, description of substantial ice strata, identification of frozen soils, and field records and presentation of data
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references
- Description based on publisher's website, viewed December 19, 2016
- OCLC:
- 1251683123
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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