Uji tes lapangan : ambil contoh tanah, potong permukaan tanah dgn cutter, lalu
permukaannya diberi air/diteteskan, apabila air cepat hilang meresap dalam tanah,
maka disebut rapid dilatancy.
Apabila air lama meresapnya atau kalis maka disebut non dilatancy
Cara lain, tanah yang setengah kering tempelkan ke lidah, apabila terasa menyerap
kuat, maka rapid dilatancy, dan biasanya tanah yang seperti itu TUFFA atau
TUFFACEOUS...... (Tuffaceous SILT, Tuffaceous SILTY CLAY ) dsb.
Apabila dijilat tidak ada reaksi, maka tanah tsb non dilatancy ( biasanya Fat Clay )
SOIL DESCRIPTION :
‐ Jenis tanah
‐ Warna ( standard Munsell, SOIL COLOR CHARTS )
‐ Plastisitas,dry strength, dilatancy,toughness.
‐ Besar butiran
‐ Kekerasan
‐ Keterangan Geologi ( kalau ada )
ROCK DESCRIPTION :
Rock name ( CLAYSTONE, LIMESTONE, ANDESITE,GRANITE, TUFFA, BRECCIA dsb )
Color( gray,brown, white dsb )
Stength (very weak, weak, mod weak, mod strong, very strong, extremely strong )
Texture ( equigranular, inequigranular porphyritic, crystalline, aphanitic )
Weathering ( Completely, highly, moderately, slightlyeathered, Fresh )
Structure ( laminated, stratified, massive, flow bedded, foliated, cleavage dsb)
Discontinuities ( spacing, roughness, aperture size, infilling dsb )
Slacking ( keterangan untuk CLAYSTONE/SILTSTONE )
CR,RCD,SCR,IF ( panjang core, solid core, index fractures )
Keterangan asal geologi (kalau ada )
PETA GEOLOGI :
Sebelum pergi ke lapangan/ proyek, penting mencari informasi peta geologi area proyek tsb,
untuk mengetahui penyebaran batuannya, agar dalam soil/rock description lebih akurat.
CONTOH DESCRIPTION :
FAT CLAY, (CH )
gray ( GLEY1 6/N), high plasticity, high to very high dry strength, non dilatancy, high
toughness, organic included, moist, stiff ( alluvium )
LEAN CLAY, ( CL )
light brown (7.5YR 6/4), slightly silty, low plasticity, medium to low dry strength, non to slow
dilatancy, medium toughness, trace fine sand, very stiff ( colluvium ).
LIMESTONE, white, strong rock, cripto crystalline, fresh to slightly weathered, honeycomb
structures, some cracks joint (small cavity) filled by clay ,fossilliferous, hard.
CALCARENITE LIMESTONE yellowish white, sandy character, homogenous grain size distributoin,
moderately weak rock, highly weathered, pores, friable, hard
MUDSTONE, light gray( GLEY1 7/1 ), weak rock, homogenous grain size distribution, moderately
weathered, thickly laminated with 30 degree inclined, weak consolidated, calcareous, slacking
when exposed, hard.
SANDSTONE, light yellowish brown(10YR 6/4 ), tuffaceous, weak rock, silty to sandy character, weak
cemented,friable, hard.
PEAT, blackish brown, predominantly plant remains, light weight, spongy and often elastic, shrinks
consideraby on air drying, when squeezed alot aut of water, wet, very soft.
STRUKTUR PERLAPISAN :
Bedded, Laminated, Massive ( untuk batuan Sedimen )
Massive, Flow bedded ( untuk batuan beku dan pyroclastic )
Foliated, Banded, Cleaved ( untuk batuan malihan/metamorf)
DISCONTINUITIES,
SPACING JOINT : adalah jarak antara kekar/ rekahan asli ( batu beku, metamorf )
Medium spaced 20 cm – 60 cm