Engineering Properties of Some North Pacific and Bering Sea Soils.
Abstract
During Leg 19 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, the DV GLOMAR CHALLENGER obtained seafloor soil samples from the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean. These were tested for engineering properties including vane shear strength and compressibility. The results were analyzed and corrected for the significant disturbance introduced during sampling. Since the correction procedures used are based on a number of assumptions, the corrected results are approximately within perhaps 50 percent of the correct properties. These estimated engineering properties appear to follow the same trend as land soils and can be correlated with index properties obtained from totally remolded samples. This report represents one phase of a project to investigate seafloor soils on a worldwide basis. Eventually a final report summarizing all of the individual phase will be prepared. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0768280
Entities
People
- H. J. Lee
Organizations
- Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center