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Soil Lab Test

DirtSmuggler

Geotechnical
Sep 29, 2021
30
For the lab results, if the limits determines something is clay (Atterberg), but the clay content is much less than the silt (Hydrometers), would it be clay or silt?
 
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The A line decides, dont go into looking at make up of clay and silt individually, look at the fines content (i.e. sum of both). For fine grained soils, anything above 50% in US and 35% in UK is a fine grained soil

there can be exceptions but thats a good base to start from
 

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