Sentence examples for marine clay from inspiring English sources

The marine clay comprises a soft upper marine clay layer overlying a stiffer lower marine clay layer.

Arable farming predominates on the marine clay soils of the delta islands.

Sinking pilings into the soft marine clay to build an underground parking lot raised construction costs.

The sensitivity of the marine clay at Changi varied from 3 to 8 and is described as highly sensitive marine clay.

An intermediate stiff clay layer is sandwiched between these two marine clay layers; it is believed to be the dessicated crust of the lower marine clay layer.

The greater part of Zeeland's marine clay soil is arable land supporting cereals, potatoes, sugar beets, and other cash crops.

The soil was a soft marine clay known as Coode Island Silt (CIS).

The present investigation examines lime-induced changes in the compressibility of marine clay.

The emphasis was on the soil pile rigidity of a laterally loaded pile in marine clay.

The upper marine clay was found to be soft with undrained shear strength values ranging from 10 to 30 kPa, while the lower marine clay was found to have undrained shear strength values from 30 to 60 kPa.

The increase of strength with depth typical of a marine clay is included in the modelling framework.