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Consolidation Properties and Stress History of Some Deep Sea Sediments

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This paper focuses on the consolidation properties and analysis of stress conditions of deep sea sediments in two regions: the North Western Atlantic in the vicinities of the Bermuda Rise and Blake Bahama Outer Ridge, and the North Central Pacific between the Murray and Mendocino Fracture Zones. One-dimensional consolidation tests have been conducted on over 100 samples obtained from a variety of different types of core samplers, including box, standard piston, giant piston (i.e. large-diameter), large-diameter gravity and Kasten, taken to depths of over 30 m. The sediments from the Atlantic sites are primarily illitic clays with varying amounts of calcium carbonate, smectite and silt content. In the Pacific sites the sediments range from illite-rich to smectite-rich pelagic and authigenic clays.

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    Bruce Denness (Professor of Ocean Engineering) (Professor of Ocean Engineering)

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Silva, A.J., Jordan, S.A. (1984). Consolidation Properties and Stress History of Some Deep Sea Sediments. In: Denness, B. (eds) Seabed Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4958-4_4

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