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Collapsible loess soils occupy 13% of Bulgarian territory and are a serious problem for construction. For this reason a lot of research work is being carried out concerning their origin, stratigraphy, lithology, engineering geological and soil mechanics properties. Loess thickness reaches up to 50 m and the total collapse under conditions of moistening and overburden pressure may reach up to 170 cm.
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Evstatiev, D. (1995). Design and Treatment of Loess Bases in Bulgaria. In: Derbyshire, E., Dijkstra, T., Smalley, I.J. (eds) Genesis and Properties of Collapsible Soils. NATO ASI Series, vol 468. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0097-7_20
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