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Soil Exploration and Sampling by Auger Borings: Standard Practice For
Soil Exploration and Sampling by Auger Borings: Standard Practice For
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This practice is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee D18 on Soil and For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website, www.astm.org, or
Rock and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee D18.02 on Sampling and contact ASTM Customer Service at service@astm.org. For Annual Book of ASTM
Related Field Testing for Soil Evaluations. Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
Current edition approved Feb. 15, 2009. Published March 2009. Originally the ASTM website.
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approved in 1957. Last previous edition approved in 2007 as D1452 – 07a. DOI: The last approved version of this historical standard is referenced on
10.1520/D1452-09. www.astm.org.
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7.1.1 Date of start and completion of boring, 7.1.8 Datum, date and time of borehole water-level mea-
7.1.2 Identifying number of boring, surement and method or equipment used, and
7.1.3 Reference datum including direction and distance of 7.1.9 Condition of augered hole upon removal of auger, that
boring relative to reference line of project or other suitable is, whether the hole remains open or the sides cave, when such
reference points, can be observed.
7.1.4 Type and size of auger used in boring,
7.1.5 Depth of changes in strata, 8. Keywords
7.1.6 Description of soil in each major stratum in accor-
dance with Practice D2488, 8.1 auger borings; geotechnical exploration; sampling; soil
7.1.7 Groundwater elevation and location of seepage zones, explorations
when found,
APPENDIX
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SUMMARY OF CHANGES
Committee D18 has identified the location of selected changes to this standard since the last issue
(D1452 – 07a) that may impact the use of this standard. (Approved Feb. 15, 2009.)
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