ENGINEERING CHARACTERISTICS OF EAST ANGLIAN QUATERNARY DEPOSITS

Approximately 80 per cent of the surface of East Anglia is composed of Quaternary deposits, and even where it is made up of pre-quaternary deposits these are highly likely to have been modified by glacial and periglacial processes. The initial Quaternary deposits consist of pre-glacial marine, estuarine and freshwater gravels, sands, clays and peats. Widespread glacial tills and outwash sands and gravels form the middle part of the succession. Later fluvioglacial and fluvial and marine interglacial sands and gravels occupy the major valleys and some coastal sites. Post-glacial deposits consist of extensive freshwater and marine alluvial peats and clays at lower elevations in the major valleys and in the coastal zone. This account briefly reviews some qualitative engineering characteristics of these East Anglian Quaternary deposits, and provides references to further sources of information on them. (a) /TRRL/

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  GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

  BURLINGTON HOUSE, PICCADILLY
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• Authors:
  • Funnell, B M
  • Wilkes, P F
• Publication Date: 1976

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 145-157
• Serial:
  • QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
  • ISSN: 0481-2085

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alluvium; Clay; Conferences; Deposits (Geology); Drainage; Dune sands; Foundations; Geological phenomena; Geology; Gravel; Peat; Properties of materials; Sand; Slope stability; Stability (Mechanics); Till; Time periods; Variables
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Quaternary deposits
• ITRD Terms: 4177: Clay; 8525: Conference; 2937: Drainage; 4038: Dune; 3377: Foundation; 4053: Geology; 4575: Gravel; 4349: Peat; 5925: Properties; 4083: Quaternary era; 4105: Sand; 5783: Slope stability; 5930: Stability; 8119: United Kingdom; 9086: Variability
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Materials; I41: General Soil Surveys;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00149027
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 17 1977 12:00AM