Fat Clay Vs Lean Clay

Fat Clay Vs Lean Clay. 5kg mixed clay YouTube Criteria for Assigning Group Symbols and Group Names Using Laboratory Tests If you add water and it starts turning to soup, its a lean clay

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I wish ASTM and others would abandon the terms "fat clay" and "lean clay," along with "elastic silt," because they don't make sense semantically 1) Fat Clays: Cohesive and compressible clay of high plasticity, containing a high proportion of minerals that make it greasy to the feel

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from publication: Contribution to the knowledge of early geotechnics. That's not totally correct, but it should be enough for you to make a classification in the field. It may be easier to think of a silt as no plasticity, elastic silt with a little bit of plasticity, lean clay with more plasticity, and finally a fat clay with lots of plasticity

A case for updating NZGS (2005) New Zealand Geotechnical Society. Reply reply Snatchbuckler • This is a good explanation.. Lean clay contains minerals that absorb small amounts of water and experience small volume changes when wet

What Does Clay Soil Look Like Back Gardener. are more meaningful, although I admit that those too are code words for "having a high plasticity index," etc. How do I recognize a fat clay vs a lean clay in the field (while logging the boreholes) without doing any LL tests on it? Also, any tips to distinguish clay from silt? Replies continue below Recommended for you