Subsurface exploration and sampling of soils for civil engineering purposes  / Hvorslev, Juul.;  -- Mississippi : Waterways Experiment Station, 1949.

xi, 521 p.

Report on a research project of the Committee on Sampling and Testing Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division. ASCE;1. General procedure and requeriments;2. Methods of subsurface exploration;3. Ground-water observations;4. Sampling methods and requeriments;5. Sampling and soil types;6. Disturbance of soil samples;7. Boring and sampling records;8. Casing and drill rods;9. Open drive samplers;10. Piston drive samplers;11. Special methods and equipment for preventing loss of samples;12. Drive samplers for submarine explorations;13. Core boring methods and equipment;14. Sampling in search of oil and minerals;15. Surface and control sampling;16. Preservation and handling of samples

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