“…Atterberg limits are relevant for a wide range of purposes such as soil classification in engineering (Atterberg, 1911;Casagrande, 1932), soil mechanics (Haigh 2012;Haigh et al, 2013;Zbik et al, 2015), agricultural soil management and plant growth (Keller and Dexter, 2012;Abbaspour-Gilandeh andSedghi, 2015, Zolfaghari et al, 2015a), and natural hazard assessment (Yalcin, 2007;Ramezanpour et al, 2010;Diaz-Hernandez et al, 2015), with a particular focus on sloping areas (Summa et al, 2010;Stanchi et al, 2013Stanchi et al, , 2015.…”