10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOULDER CLAY»
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boulder clay in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
boulder clay and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Geotechnical Engineering - Meeting Society Needs -
3 DUBLIN BOULDER CLAY 3.1 Soil properties Dublin boulder clay is generally
well graded, lies on the T-line on the plasticity chart, and has a fines content (< 0-
063 mm) of around 35 %, sufficient to give its overall behaviour that of a fine ...
Ken K. S. Ho, K. S. Li, 2001
6.2.5 Boulder Clay Boulder clay is material produced during the penultimate Ice
Age from glaciers; it consists of a mixture of clay, silt, sand, gravel, stones,
cobbles and boulders. The most prevalent boulder clay has a sand content of 60-
70% ...
CUR Centre for Civil Engineering, 1996
3
Understanding GCSE Geography: A For AQA Specification
Maximum width clayey, which is why some physical geographers prefer to use
the term glacial till instead of boulder clay to describe all ice-deposited materials.
As the glacier continues to push forward, melting more and more all the time, ...
Ann Bowen, John Pallister, 2006
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The Geotechnics of Hard Soils - Soft Rocks -
INTRODUCTION Dublin boulder clay is the colloquial name given to the hard
lodgement till which underlies much of the greater Dublin area in Ireland. Its high
strength and stiffness have contributed to relatively inexpensive conventional ...
Aldo Evangelista, Luciano Picarelli, 1998
5
Geology of Construction Materials
The intersection of the surface contours with the basal contours will give the
depth* of the boulder clay at that point. By joining the intersection points (
examples of which are ringed in Figure 1.10(a)), Figure 1.10(b), which shows
lines of equal ...
6
Groundwater Pollution, Aquifer Recharge and Vulnerability
The presence of low-permeability boulder clay within the drift is shown in Fig. 9
based on borehole logs. The boulder clay covers a greater proportion of the
Waveney catchment than the Little Ouse catchment and the average thickness is
also ...
7
BGA International Conference on Foundations: Innovations, ...
At the shaft location, the encountered geology comprised a 2m depth of brown
weathered boulder clay overlying black boulder clay, with the base, i.e. rock level
, taken to be approximately at a depth of 35m. Initial ground water conditions
were ...
8
The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man
Duntroon. Caithness, in boulder clay; Dalmuir; Cumbrae College ; Lochgilp ; East
and West '1'arbert ; Duntroon; Paisley; Garvel Park New Dock; Kilchattan Tile-
work, Bute ; Tangy Glen, near Campbeltown, in laminated clay below boulder
clay ...
9
Risk and Reliability in Ground Engineering: Proceedings of ...
of a stiff to very stiff lodgement till, known as the Dublin Boulder Clay, overlying
limestone bedrock. This deposit is described as a silty, sandy, gravelly clay with
cobbles and boulders. The upper part of this deposit, generally at depths less
than ...
B. O. Skipp, Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), 1994
Drift times, and a low percentage the later, Chalky-Boulder- Clay times. It is very
uncertain whether this is a satisfactory criterion, as the percentage would be
likely to alter in different areas, according to whether the area was far from or
near the ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOULDER CLAY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
boulder clay is used in the context of the following news items.
£14 million scheme to protect Scarborough cliffs gains council backing
“Over the years we have seen many incidents in which the boulder clay that makes up much of the North Yorkshire coastline has been ... «ITV News, Jun 15»
Details of landslip prone road repairs made public
Landslips from a boulder clay slope above the road has also seen the road locked down. Dynamic Dart Advertisement. But North Yorkshire ... «Yorkshire Post, May 15»
The Land Drainage Contractors Association
... and in management at a 3000 acre heavy boulder clay estate in Essex, he was well versed in the science and practice of soils and water. «Pitchcare, Mar 15»
Essential guide to: Nemo Link
The physical environment: Where possible, areas of rock, boulder clay and sand waves will be avoided as these can create difficulties in ... «Kent News, Jan 15»
Go Walk: a steep walk from Brandon Point to An Sas
I like to ponder on the lives of the three 19th-century families who farmed on the steep slopes above the Boulder Clay Cliffs that encircle the ... «Irish Times, Jan 15»
Every day is Captain's Day
Warren explains that the entire site is boulder clay. "The greens were originally a push up clay construction. Twenty years ago, the club rebuilt ... «Pitchcare, Dec 14»
Eastern counties commercial farms coming to market
Hawkes Farm, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, consists of 140 acres of chalky boulder clay plus a good three-bedroom farmhouse, ... «FarmersWeekly, Oct 14»
Farmers Weekly Farmer of the Year 2014: Poul Hovesen
... been in the ownership of the White family for more than 120 years; soils are predominantly light sandy loams with some boulder clay valleys. «FarmersWeekly, Oct 14»
Storms attack historic structures on deserted Inishark
Tiny ribs protrude through the glacial deposits of boulder clay. American archaeological students, on a recent field trip with Notre Dame ... «Irish Times, Aug 14»
Rotunda Museum houses impressive fossil collection
Their remarkable preservation was probably due to the water retaining properties of the local boulder clay. The blackening was due to a ... «Berwick Today, Jun 14»
