CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
(CALTRANS)
UNIFIED SOIL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
UNIFIED SOIL CLASSIFICATION AND SYMBOL CHART
COARSE-GRAINED SOILS
(more than 80% of material is targer than No. 200 sieve size)
‘Glean Gravels (Less than 5% fines)
Wellgraded gravels, gravel-sand
mitre, litle or a fines
More than 50% (gp | Pooryaraded gravels, gravel-sand
LABORATORY CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA
20
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Dag
‘greater than 4: Cp = between 1 and 2
Dig*Dap
GP. Not meeting al gradation requirements for GW
heoarse” (ey OP | mints iter no tes
fraction larger Gravels with fines (More than 12% fines)
than No
sievesize | ou | sitygravels ravorsandaitmicires | | cat Aterbergtits below A” |. petng wit Pl. botveen
{0 ae borserine cases
Gayey gravel, raversand day Ge Alorberg mits above a" | requrng usec al smools
mos tine wit gear han 7
isan Sands (Less an 5 es) D
$0 greater than 4; C, between f and 3.
Woltraded sands, gravely sands roster than 4:05 = 2
SW | ithe orno fines and 10 Dig *Deq
sano
Eats Poorly graded sands gravel sends
Cteoase SP | tbe ora fines ‘SP Not meating all gradation requirements for GW
eee Sands with fines (More than 12% fines)
Sevesze [11] sa | sity sands sand-sit mistres cu Aterbarg nits below A” | ints ting in shad one
SC. | Clayey sands, sané-clay mixtures
FINE-GRAINED SOLS
(60% or more of materia is smaller than No. 200 sieve size.)
‘nth BL between 4 and 7 are
Borderine eases requiring use
30 Alsrberg mis above a’ |. oroine cases
tie with PI greater than 7
Inorganie sits and very fine sands, rock
‘termine parcariagas af and and gavel fom gialnaiz cave. Depending
‘on poreoniago ones (acon small than No. 200 siove siz},
‘ars grained sd recast low
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sus sits wih sight pasty ove than 1 pereon’ ‘ COIL Ge SL Se.
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Luqaigtimt | | CL. | plasty, gravely clays, sandy clays,
ene | Silty cays Tean clays PLASTICITY CHART
50%
con. | Organi sits and organic sity cays of 0
fom pasty z
Ex
van | Gatsmasonus fn sanyo lye, = 2
siLTs elastic silts a ‘ALINE:
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son A & 2
a 5
| ou | Organic ays of medium to high 2 0
i plasty. genic sits 2 mm aso
HiGHLy °o 10 20 8 a0 80 e070 BO 60 100
ORGANIC pr | Pestand otherhighly organic sols iets anti fey
‘SOILS.