GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE SPRING RIVER BRIDGE

The Kansas Department of Transportation (K-DOT) is in the final stages of a $3.24 billion "Comprehensive Highway Program". Included in this massive highway system renovation is the realignment of US-69 highway across the Spring River in southeast Kansas. This small region of Kansas is typically known as the "Ozark Plateau". The Ozark topography is characterized by heavily timbered hills combined with deep cut valleys. The geology of the region consists of interbedded limestones and cherts of the Warsaw-Keokuk Formation, which is Mississippian in geologic age. This formation is subject to numerous post-depositional alterations: solution cavities, hydrothermal mineralization, clay-filled fissures and interconnecting solution tunnels. Diverse drilling and investigative procedures contributed to an accurate useful preliminary investigation of the high-variable bedrock. K-DOT geologists and structural engineers combined to design bridge foundations that were constructed in a timely, cost effective manner.

• Corporate Authors:

  Highway Geology Symposium

  North Carolina DOT, Geotechnical Unit, P.O. Box 3279
  Asheville, NC  United States  28802
• Authors:
  • Henthorne, R W
• Conference:
  • 49th Highway Geology Symposium
  • Location: Prescott, Arizona
  • Date: 1998-9-10 to 1998-9-14
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 266-282

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bedrock; Bridge engineering; Bridge foundations; Geological surveying; Highway maintenance; Investigation of structure; Structural design
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; I43: Rock Mechanics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00760793
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 13 1999 12:00AM