UNCLASSIFIED 



SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF 



AGE (When Data Entered) 



REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE 



1. REPORT NUMBER 



TN-1334 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO 



3- RECIPIENT'S CATALOG NUMBER 



TLE (and Subline) 



Short-Term Engineering Behavior of a Deep- Sea 

 Calcareous Sediment 



5, TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 



Not final 



6. PERFORMING ORG, REPORT NUMBER 



7. AUTHORrs, 



CONTRACT OR GR 



P. J. Valent 



PERFORMING ORGA 



^D ADDRESS 



CIVIL ENGINEERING LABORATORY 

 Naval Construction Battalion Center 

 Port Hueneme, California 33043 



42-009 



1- CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Office of Naval Research 

 Arlington, VA 22217 



12. REPORT DATE 



March 1974 



36 



ADDRESSri' differ 



. SECURITY CLASS, (of t 



Unclassified 



16. DISTRIBUTION ST ATEMEN T fof this ReporO 



Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 



DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT fo/ ( 



I Block 20. it dil 



9. KEY WORDS (Cotilinu 



Sediments 

 Oozes 



Calcareous ooze 

 Ocean bottom 



Soil mechanics 

 Soil properties 



The engineering index parameters, primary consolidation properties, and 

 effective-stress strength properties of a deep-sea calcareous sediment are reported. This 

 short-term engineering property description of the sediment is the first stage of an in-depth 

 study of creep behavior of this sediment during consolidation and shear. The calcareous 

 sediment sample has been classified as an inorganic silt, according to the Unified Soil 

 Classification System. The compression index, C., is 0.80; empirical correlations from 



DD 1 JAN*73 1473 EDITION OF 1 NOV 65 IS OBSOLETE 



UNCLASSIFIED 



CLASSIFICATION OF THIS PAGE ( 



MBL/WHOI 



D 03D1 ODMDSEfl 5 



