U.S.

Standard
Unified Soil

Sieve No.
Udden -
inches mm Classification AASHTO 2/
AGU 3/
USDA 4/

Wentworth 5/

System 1/

4026 ─
2048 ─ boulders boulders
boulders boulders
1024 ─
boulders
512 ─
12 300 ─
10 256 ─
cobbles cobbles
6 128 ─ cobbles cobbles
3 75 ─
64 ─
32 ─ coarse gravel coarse gravel
coarse gravel
1 25.4 ─
0.75 19 ─
16 ─ pebble gravel
0.5 12.7 ─ medium gravel gravel
fine gravel fine gravel
0.375 9.5 ─
8 ─
0.25 6.35 ─
fine gravel
4 4.76 ─
4 ─ coarse sand granule
10 2 ─
coarse sand
1 ─ coarse sand coarse sand coarse sand
medium sand
0.5 ─
40 0.425 ─
medium sand medium sand medium sand

0.25 ─
fine sand fine sand
fine sand fine sand fine sand
0.125 ─
200 0.074 ─ very fine sand very fine sand very fine sand
0.0625 ─
0.05 ─
0.031 ─ silt
0.0156 ─ silt silt
silt
0.0078 ─ silt or clay
0.005 ─
0.0039 ─
clay

0.001 ─ clay clay

clay
colloids
1/ Unified Soil Classification System, ASTM D2487
2/ AASHTO, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officers (AASHTO 1998)
3/ AGU, American Geophysical Union (Lane 1947)
4/ USDA textural classification system (USDA 1951)
5/ Udden-Wentworth classification system (Udden 1914; Wentworth 1922)