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'Unified Soil Classification (USC) System <br /> Soil Grain Size <br /> Inch Size of Opening In Inches Number of Mesh per IncGrain Size in Millimetres <br /> (US Standard) <br /> m m v M N <br /> N N V O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O <br /> Co 'r M N�� .- CO CC)r M d N m N <br /> I I ill I I I l l i lil i l ! I ! ! III I I I I ! I III I I I i t I III l i I l l I I <br /> 8 O O wCOD o M N O m m V co N m CO M N mw V' M N m m `7 M N <br /> M N �- O O O O O O O O O O O 00 <br /> 0 0 O O O <br /> Grain Size in Millimetres <br /> COBBLES GRAVEL SAND SILT and CLAY <br /> Coarse-Grained Soils Fine-Grained Soils <br /> Coarse-Grained Soils <br /> GW GP GM GCSW � SP SM � SC <br /> Clean GRAVEL<5%fines GRAVEL with>12%fines Clean SAND<59%16 fines SAND with>12%fines <br /> GRAVEL>50%coarse fraction larger than No.4 SAND>50%coarse fraction smaller than No.4 <br /> Coarse-Grained Soils>50%larger than No.200 sieve <br /> (D60 >4 for G W (D30)2 <br /> G W and S W &j< <br /> ( <3 G P and S P Clean GRAVEL or SAND not meeting <br /> �D10 >6 for S W — D10 X Dso requirements for G W and S W <br /> G M and S M Atterberg limits below Aline with PI <4 G C and S C Atterberg limits above A Line with PI>7 <br /> *Coarse-grained soils with percentage of fines between 5 and 12 are considered borderline cases requiring use of dual symbols. <br /> Dt0, D30, and D60 are the particles diameter of which 10,30,and 60 percent, respectively,of the soil weight are finer. <br /> Fine-Grained Soils <br /> F- <br /> ML CL—T-6LMH CH OH Pt <br /> SILT CLAY Organic SILT CLAY Organic Highly <br /> Organic <br /> Soils with Liquid Limit<50% Soils with Liquid Limit>50% Soils <br /> Fine-Grained Sails>50%smaller than No.200 sieve <br /> 60 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 60 <br /> 50C H 50 <br /> axi 40 40 <br /> C L `re <br /> 30 Q�� 30 <br /> .y <br /> Co 20 MHor0H 20 <br /> 10 C L - M L M L 10 <br /> or O L <br /> 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 0100 <br /> Liquid Limit <br /> A <br /> HA. WCROWSL-R <br /> SRF Grain Size(8-1).cdr M6 19106-01 5115 <br /> Figure B-1 <br />