NEW YORK'S GLACIAL LAKE FORMATION OF VARVED SILT AND CLAY-DISCUSSION

Discussions are presented regarding a paper on the methods of founding multistory apartments on late Pleistocene Glacial lake deposits in the New York area. The paper noted that the deposits were sufficiently preconsolidated to permit founding multistory buildings directly on it with predeterminable and acceptable settlements. The paper furthermore clearly demonstrates the savings in cost and time that can be achieved by careful soils investigations. It is noted that the paper does not present details or consideration regarding actual bearing capacities of varved clays which depend on many other conditions, nor does it report any failures in vertical bearing capacity. Estimates of expected settlements were based on laboratory consolidation tests, after the test data had been modified to represent field conditions. Estimated settlements were submitted officially before the foundation structures were built. It is noted that estimated settlements in some cases are slightly larger and lower than the observed settlements.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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  New York, NY  United States  10017-2398
• Discussers:
  • Swiger, W F
• Publication Date: 1977-5

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 492
• Serial:
  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Volume: 103
  • Issue Number: GT5
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 1090-0241
  • Serial URL: http://ojps.aip.org/gto

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bearing capacity; Costs; Deposits (Geology); Estimates; Foundations; Ground settlement; Laboratory tests; Preconsolidation pressure; Productivity; Silts; Soil tests; Varved clays
• Uncontrolled Terms: Site investigation; Time savings
• Old TRIS Terms: Deposits; Preconsolidation
• Subject Areas: Finance; Geotechnology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00157166
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: ASCE 12218
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 9 1977 12:00AM