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Physical behavior of a gray cohesive argisol in Ceara State

Herdjania Veras de Lima, Alvaro Pires da Silva, Ricardo Espindola Romero, Paulo Klinger Tito Jacomine

01/Feb/2005

The natural behavior of a set of soils that becomes hard, very hard or extremely hard when dry and friable when wet is being studied in many parts of the world. In Brazil, soils with this behavior are known as “cohesive soil” or “soil with cohesive horizon”. Objective of this study was to evaluate the behavior of soils with a cohesive horizon in Coastal Tableland areas of Ceara State by means of the following physical parameters: tensile strength (RT), penetration […]