Geotechnical Characteristics of Soils and Rocks of India

This book presents mainly the geotechnical details of geomaterials (soils and rocks) found in all the 36 states and union territories of India. There are 37 chapters in this book. Chapter 1 provides an overview of geomaterials, focusing on their engineering properties as determined based on the project site investigations and laboratory/field tests. This will help the readers to understand the technical details as explained in 36 chapters with each chapter dealing with geomaterials of one state/union territory only--