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The document describes the Unified Soil Classification System which categorizes soils into groups based on their composition of particles and plasticity. It lists the main groups as gravels, sands, silts and clays, further broken down by grain size, gradation, plasticity and organic content.

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Uscs Chart

The document describes the Unified Soil Classification System which categorizes soils into groups based on their composition of particles and plasticity. It lists the main groups as gravels, sands, silts and clays, further broken down by grain size, gradation, plasticity and organic content.

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UNIFIED SOIL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Name

Group
Symbols Fines
(%)

Gravels
(more than
50% of coarse
fraction of
gravel size)

coarse
grained

Well graded gravels,


with little or no fines
Poorly graded
gravels, sandy
gravels, with little or
no fines

GW

0-5

GP

0-5

Silty gravels, silty


sandy gravels

GM

>12

GC

>12

SW

0-5

(more
Clayey gravels, clayey
than 50%
sandy gravels
larger
Sands
than 63
(more than
Well graded sands,
m BS or
50%
of
coarse
gravelly
sands, with
No.200 US
fraction
of
little
or
no fines
sieve size)
sand size)
Poorly graded sands,
gravelly sands, with
little or no fines
Silty sands
Clayey sands
Name

fine
grained
(more
than 50%
smaller
than 63
m BS or
No.200 US
sieve size)

Inorganic clays, silty


clays, sandy clays of
low plasticity

Silts and
Clays (liquid
limit greater
than 50)

Highly organic soils

Grading

Plasticity

Notes

Dual
symbols
if 5-12%
fines.
Not satisfying
GW
Dual
requirements
symbols if
above ABelow A-line
line and
or PI<4
4<PI<7

Cu>4
1<Cc<3

Above A-line
and PI>7
Reminder

Cu>6
1<Cc<3

60

Cu=

10

SP

0-5

Not satisfying
SW
requirements

Cc=

>12

Below A-line
or PI<4

SC

>12

Above A-line
and PI>7
LABORATORY CRITERIA
Use plasticity chart

ML
Use plasticity chart
CL
Use plasticity chart

Organic silts and


organic silty clays of
low plasticity

OL

Inorganic silts of
high plasticity

MH

Inorganc clays of
high plasticity

CH

Organic clays of
high plasiticty

OH

Peat and other highly


organic soils

Pt

30 2

10 60

SM

Group
Symbols

Silts and
Inorganic silts, silty
Clays (liquid or clayey fine sands,
limit less than with slight plasticity
50)

LABORATORY CRITERIA

Use plasticity chart


Use plasticity chart
Use plasticity chart
Use plasticity chart

PI=LL-PL

Equation of A-line = 0.73* (LL-20)

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