A Systems Approach to Petroleum Port Site Selection

Gaither, William S.; Sides, John Patrick

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“…Small and Wallin (1971) consider site surveying for pipelines. Gaither and Sides (1969) describe a systems approach to port-site selection. Ciani et al (1971) present diver survey methods at construction sites.…”

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Review of continental shelf marine geotechnics: Distribution of soils, measurement of properties, and environmental hazards

Richards

Palmer

Perlow

1975

Marine Geotechnology

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Sands and silty sands are the predominant surficial soils of continental shelves. Cohesive fine-grained soils are typical off the mouths of large rivers, near bays and estuaries, and in basins located on the shelf. The stratigraphy of shelf soils is very poorly known for most engineering purposes, except in the vicinity of the Mississippi Delta.Vibratory coring is the most common method of sampling shelf sands to depths of about 13 m; greater soil depths are sampled by borings often using drilling and wireline sampling tools. Employment of self-contained or wireline static cone penetrometers to obtain in situ measurements of sands has not been as common in the United States as in Europe. Dynamic piston corers are the most common samplers in cohesive soils, but rotary and hydraulically activated incremental corers are becoming available for marine use. Selfcontained or wireline vane shear devices and static cone penetrometers are used for the in situ testing of cohesive soils, and the latter device is also used for cohesionless soils. Dynamic cone penetrometers have been developed and have had limited experimental use at sea. In situ electrical resistivity and nuclear-transmission and backscatter probes have been used in cohesive soils to obtain bulk-

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confidence: 99%