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Laterite Soils and Their Stabilization 10 7. McLeod, Norman W., "A Cana• sium on Load Tests of Bearing Capacity dian Investigation of Load Testing of Soils, ASTM Special Technical Pub• Applied to Pavement Design," Sympo• lication No. 79, p. 83. LATERITE SOILS AND THEIR STABILIZATION Hans F. Winterkorn and E. C. Chandrasekharan Winterkorn Road Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey Synopsis Origin, occurrence, and correct identification of latente rock and soil are briefly discussed. The peculiar properties of latente soils are outlined and suggested methods of dealing with them are indicated. Results are reported of experimental studies on four latente soils and one intrazonal non-laterite soil, with special attention to their susceptibility to stabilization. The latter varied over a wide range Of the stabilizers used, Portland cement gave best results m some cases and aniline-furfural (2:1) m others. The presence of organic matter seems to play a detrimental role m many cases. The possible use of "oiled earth" properly fortified with anti-oxidants and bactericidal substances for low-cost roads in latente areas is briefly discussed Of the important groups of the trop• From a purely scientific point of ical and subtropical soils of the world, view, the peculiar engineering prop• the laterite soils occupy a unique place, erties of laterite soils as extreme in regard to both their extensive oc• products of soil genesis call for an currence and peculiar properties. They extensive investigation and possible are widely distributed in such areas as elucidation, not only for their own India, Indonesia, Indo-China, Malaya, sake but also for a better understanding Burma, Western Australia, Mada• of the properties of less extreme soil gascar, Central Africa, the Guianas, types. The present work is confined Brazil, and Cuba (Fig. 1). From a to the engineering characteristics of world-wide political and economical these soils, especially those of impor• point of view^ study of these soils is of tance in low-cost road construction. vital interest because: (1) they nor• The development of the science of mally possess good tilth and excellent soil stabilization has given a scientific drainability, with plenty of solar energy footing to an understanding, though as and water available; with an adequate yet more or less qualitative, of soil supply of fertilizers they are capable behavior in highway and airport struc• of excellent yields and may well be tures (31). Most of the available in• destined to contribute in a major degree formation, however, pertains to soils to the food supply of the world; and (2) of the temperate zones. That soils of a great need exists for a suitable net• the different climatic zones vary ex• work of low-cost roads m these areas tensively in th6ir properties is well- already in their present under-develop• known. The necessity for a possible ed condition and even more so if their special approach to the study of the proper agricultural development is to tropical and subtropical soils has been proceed. emphasized by many authors (13, 27, 32, 33). 'See Point IV of the Truman Program, and PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS the British plans for assisting in the eco• nomic development of Southeastern Asia and Ever since the word laterite was of Africa. introduced, first in geology and later 11 in pedology, there has been a sea of the term bauxite came to be used only for controversy over its correct nomen• commercial alummum ores. Campbell clature and identification. Laterite (4) in 1917 called a material laterite owes its origin to the Latin word later only if it contained uncombmed alumina meaning "brick," and was first dis• in the form of the hydroxide. cussed in 1807 by Buchanan (3) purely In 1926 Harrassowitz (14) first on its field-occurrence: "It is one of characterized laterites as red soils the most valuable materials for build• enriched on the surface with oxides of ing. It is full of cavities and pores, and iron and aluminum. According to him contains a large quantity of iron in the the European red beds are of fossil form of red and yellow ochres. In the laterite origin. Marbut's (21) "normal" mass, while excludedfrom the air, it is laterites are those formed under the so soft that any iron instrument cuts influence of good drainage free from the it, and IS dug up in square masses with action of high ground water. He calls a pick-ax, and immediately cut mto the ground-water laterites the soils falling shape wanted with a trowel or a knife. within Fermor's first group. Mohr (23) It soon after becomes hard as brick, and believes that the laterite crust is the resists the air and water much better result of eluviation followed by erosion. than any brick I have known in India. He mentions five stages in the full de• The most proper name would be Lat• velopment of a typical laterite, viz. , erite from Lateritis. " * fresh ash soil, tarapan (juvenile soil), In 1911, Fermor (9), in a most brownish yellow lixivium, red lixivium, explanatory paper, defines laterite as and laterite. Periodic variation of being formed by a process which causes ground-water level (descent and ascent) the superficial decomposition of the appears to be a most important factor parent rock, removal in solution of in laterite formation. combined silica, lime, magnesia, soda and potash, and accumulation of LATERITIC SOILS hydrated iron, aluminum, titanium, and rarely, manganese. The latter were One of the important reasons for the termed by him "lateritic constituents. " confusion regarding the correct iden• A residual rock with 90 percent or tification of laterites is the large area more of lateritic constituents is termed of the tropical and subtropical zones a true laterite. This true laterite is to involved and the different degrees of be distinguished from the lesser groups, laterization encountered in the various viz., lithomargic laterites and lateritic parts. Martm and Doyne (21) used the lithomarges with 50 to 90 percent and silica-alumina ratio as a classification 25 to 50 percent of lateritic constituents criterion: respectively. The controversy over the identification of bauxite as a variety of Soil Type Si02/Al203 laterite was answered by Clark (7) in 1916 to the effect that there is no di• Laterite soil 1. 33 or less viding line between bauxites and later• Lateritic soil 1.33 - 2.00 ites - one shades into the other. Later, Non-lateritic soil 2. 00 and over 'This term used by Buchanan, meaning literally "brick disease", throws a peculiar The Si02/Al203 rather than the light on the problem whether "laterite" Si02/R203 ratio was employed for ana• refers primarily to the use of the material lytical reasons since iron may some• in construction or to its bnck-hke appear• times be in the form of ferrous oxide. ance. In several Indian dialects laterite is This leads to the paradox that formal- called "brick-stone" (itica cullu), in the istically the presence of iron is non• Tamil language it is called shun cull or "itch-stone" because its surface appearance essential for a soil to be termed laterite; resembles certain cutaneous disorders. The this, of course, is in direct contradic• Latin-derived English term happens to cover tion to the original definition of Buchanan both appearance and function. and overlooks the important role which 12 iron oxides play in the rock named later- (4) Non-accumulation of organic matter ite by him. Moreover, the presence of (5) Distinctive red color. iron in laterite soils is one of the most important factors that influence their B^ Characterization of the residual engineering properties. It certainly is weathering product "laterite". more appropriate to employ as class• ification criterion the silica sesquioxide (1) A tropical climate subject to alter• ratio: nations of dry or wet seasons or monsoons. Soil Type S1O2/R2O3 (2) A level, or very gently sloping, elevated land surface which is not Laterite soil 1. 33 or less subject to appreciable mechanical Lateritic soil 1.33 - 2.00 erosion (abrasion by ram and wind) Non-lateritic soil 2.00 and over (3) The chemical and mineralogicalcom- a .^UrlU and XaUTillc SoiU (AFTER BOL'SHOI SOVETSKI ATLAS MIRA: JOFFE) Figure 1. Distribution of Laterite and Lateritic Soils in the World. It should be useful at this point to position of the exposed rocks to be juxtapose the presently accepted char• suitable for a supply of the lateritic acterization of lateritic and laterite constituents, alumina and ferric soils and the conditions stipulated in the oxide. revised theory of C. S. Fox for the (4) The texture of the rock to be (or tropical residual weathering product rapidly become during weathering) "laterite" (12, 19). sufficiently porous for the entry of percolating water, so that the condi• A^ Characterization of lateritic and tions for chemical action will be at laterite soils- a maximum. (5) The infiltrating water to remain in (1) Disintegration and decomposition of the interstices of the rock for long the parent material in the direction of periods annually, 1. e. , during the the end products of weathering. wet monsoon, but eventually to drain (2) Release and removal of silica. away in the dry period thus givmg (3) Separation of sesquioxides and fixa• maximum play to chemical erosion tion in the profile. (6) The infiltrating water to contain 13 either an acid or alkaline substance external manifestations of the gran- with which to react on the rock com• ulometry and the inherent affinity of ponents as well as to constitute an the individual particles or aggregates electrolyte and allow electro-kinetic to one another under different conditions phenomena to operate. of moisture and mechanical stress. (7) These annual processes to be in Consequently, the nature, mechanical operation for at least a geological strength, and the permanency of ce• epoch of roughly a million years mentation in these soils must be under• stood.
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