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On the role of heredity in the formation of the engineering geological properties of rocks

Role de L’heredite dans la Genese des Proprietes geotechniques des roches

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Engineering geological properties of rocks are determined by the whole history of their formation and development. As exemplified by investigations of marine clays in different areas the changes of rock properties in the zone of hypergenesis are shown to be of hereditary nature. Ascertaining the role of heredity in the formation of rock properties makes it possible to determine the chief processes which have formed the contemporary state of the rock.

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Les propriétés géotechniques des roches se constituent pendant toute l’histoire de leur genèse. L’étude de roches argileuses d’origine marine, prélevées dans diverses régions, montre que les variations des propriétés des roches dans la zone d’hypergenèse constituent un caractère hérité. Dans ces conditions, l’étude des caractères qui ont pu être acquis par une roche au cours de son histoire doit permettre de déterminer quels principaux processus ont donné à la roche sa physionomie actuelle.

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  1. Giprokommunenergo Institute, Moscow, USSR

    Koff G. L.

  2. Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR

    Popov I. V.

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Koff, G.L., Popov, I.V. On the role of heredity in the formation of the engineering geological properties of rocks. Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology 11, 49–50 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02635452

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