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Unified Soil Classification
Unified Soil Classification
no fines)
Gravels
Little or
mixtures, little or no fines intermediate particle sizes on stratification, degree of
(Clean
More than half of coarse
sieve size.
characteristics.
Gravels
The No. 200 sieve size is about the smallest particle visible to the naked eye.
fines)
Fines
No. 200 sieve size.
SW
Sands
Clean
fines)
(Little
parentheses.
or no
Poorly graded sands or gravelly sands, Predominantly one size or a range of sizes with some
SP Example:
little or no fines intermediate sizes missing
Silty sand gravelly; about 20% hard,
Sands
identification
amount of
ML flour, silty or clayey fine sands or clayey None to slight Quick to slow None on structure, stratification,
No. 200 sieve size.
Fine-grained Soils
Example:
Organic clays and silts of medium to high Slight to
OH Medium to high None to very slow Clayey silt, brown; slightly plastic;
plasticity medium
small percentage of fine sand;
Readily identified by color, odor, spongy feel and numerous vertical root holes; firm
Highly Organic Soils Pt Peat and other highly organic soils
frequently by fibrous texture and dry and place; loess (ML).