STRATIGRAPHY AND PROPERTIES OF THE CLYDE ALLUVIUM

The paper outlines the geological history of the Clyde valley and attempts to relate this to the nature and distribution of the sediments within it. Because of the position of the valley within a glaciated region in which isostatic recovery has occurred, the infill deposits are very complex, with fluvioglacial, lacustrine, marine, brackish and freshwater deposits overlying glacial and pre-glacial materials. The soils within the succession have been identified, classified in terms of their basic physical properties and their likely engineering behaviours have been indicated. The engineering significance of the nature of the various strata within the stratigraphical sequence is then discussed. (Author/TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was presented at the 19th Regional Conference of Engineering Group of Geological Society on the Engineering Geology of Tidal Rivers.
• Corporate Authors:

  GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

  BURLINGTON HOUSE, PICCADILLY
  LONDON,   United Kingdom  W1V 0JU
• Authors:
  • MCGOWN, A
  • Miller, David
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 243-258
• Serial:
  • QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
  • ISSN: 0481-2085

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alluvium; Clay; Geology; Glacial soils; Inland waterways; Properties of materials; Rivers; Sampling; Sediments; Silts; Soils; Stratigraphy; Till
• Uncontrolled Terms: Site investigation; Soil properties
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Alldvium
• ITRD Terms: 4030: Alluvium; 4198: Boulder clay; 4177: Clay; 4053: Geology; 4011: Glacial; 1088: Inland waterway; 5925: Properties; 6253: Sampling; 4149: Silt; 5722: Site investigation; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Materials; I41: General Soil Surveys;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00395525
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 1985 12:00AM