{"title":"An Engineering Soil Survey of Fayette County, Kentucky","authors":"R. Deen","doi":"10.13023/KTC.RR.1958.131","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"AGRICULTURAL SOIL SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVELOPED A SYSTEM OF SOIL CLASSIFICATION AND MAPPING THAT HAS BEEN AND IS CONTINUING TO BE OF GREAT VALUE TO THE SOILS ENGINEER IN RECONNAISSANCE AND MAPPING. THIS REPORT COVERS A STATISTICAL METHOD OF CORRELATION USED IN A PILOT STUDY CONDUCTED IN ORDER TO MAKE ENGINEERING SOILS DATA AVAILABLE FROM A PEDOLOGICAL MAP OF FAYETTE COUNTY, KY. ASSUMING THAT THE RELIABILITY OF PEDOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONS HOLDS TRUE FOR ENGINEERING PROPERTIES, THE ENGINEERING TEST CONSTANTS FOR A GIVEN HORIZON OF A GIVEN SOIL SHOULD FALL WITHIN A NARROW RANGE, AND THE LIMITS OF THIS RANGE SHOULD BE REASONABLY DETERMINABLE FROM THE RESULTS OF TESTS ON A SMALL NUMBER OF RANDOM SAMPLES. IN THE PRESENT STUDY A RANGE WITH A CONFIDENCE COEFFICIENT OF 0.90 WAS DETERMINED BY THE STATISTICAL METHOD USED. /AUTHOR/","PeriodicalId":12918,"journal":{"name":"Highway Research Board bulletin","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Highway Research Board bulletin","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.13023/KTC.RR.1958.131","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
AGRICULTURAL SOIL SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVELOPED A SYSTEM OF SOIL CLASSIFICATION AND MAPPING THAT HAS BEEN AND IS CONTINUING TO BE OF GREAT VALUE TO THE SOILS ENGINEER IN RECONNAISSANCE AND MAPPING. THIS REPORT COVERS A STATISTICAL METHOD OF CORRELATION USED IN A PILOT STUDY CONDUCTED IN ORDER TO MAKE ENGINEERING SOILS DATA AVAILABLE FROM A PEDOLOGICAL MAP OF FAYETTE COUNTY, KY. ASSUMING THAT THE RELIABILITY OF PEDOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONS HOLDS TRUE FOR ENGINEERING PROPERTIES, THE ENGINEERING TEST CONSTANTS FOR A GIVEN HORIZON OF A GIVEN SOIL SHOULD FALL WITHIN A NARROW RANGE, AND THE LIMITS OF THIS RANGE SHOULD BE REASONABLY DETERMINABLE FROM THE RESULTS OF TESTS ON A SMALL NUMBER OF RANDOM SAMPLES. IN THE PRESENT STUDY A RANGE WITH A CONFIDENCE COEFFICIENT OF 0.90 WAS DETERMINED BY THE STATISTICAL METHOD USED. /AUTHOR/