1/24/2015 Soil Particle Size Chapter 2.11 Soil Particle Size 3" No. 4 No. 200 USCS gravel sand fines (silt and clay sizes) AASHTO gravel sand silt clay USDA gravel sand silt clay MIT gravel sand silt clay 0.6 60 Grain size (mm) 1
1/24/2015 Clay Mineralogy Chapter 2.12 Products of Weathering Granite Basalt Coarse-grained Fine-grained Na-Feldspar Ca-Feldspar Na(AlSi 3 O 8 ) Ca(Al 2 Si 2 O 8 ) Easily Weathered K-Feldspar Na-Feldspar Minerals K(AlSi 3 O 8 ) Na(AlSi 3 O 8 ) Quartz Olivine SiO 2 (Mg,Fe) 2 SiO 4 2
1/24/2015 Products of Weathering Holtz & Kovacs, 1981 (Si 2 O 10 ) -4 Silica Tetrahedron 3
1/24/2015 Holtz & Kovacs, 1981 Gibbsite Al 3 (OH) 6 Aluminum Octahedron Brucite Mg 3 (OH) 6 Kaolinite hydrogen bonding Specific surface = 15 m 2 /g 4
1/24/2015 Montmorillonite nH 2 O layers and exchangeable cations 0.96 nm Specific surface = 800 m 2 /g Illite 0.96 nm Specific surface = 80 m 2 /g 5
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