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Project #22: Greenfield Road

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GEOMORPHIC SETTING: Residual soil with variable thickness overlying a quartz–mica schist bedrock exposed in a road cut along a scenic state highway in north west Massachusetts.

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  • Gray, D.H. and Sotir, R. (1992). Biotechnical stabilization of a highway cut. Journ. of Geotechnical Engineering (ASCE) 118 (GT9): 1395-1409.

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  • Gray, D.H. and Sotir, R. (1992). Biotechnical Stabilization of Cut and Fill Slopes. Proceedings, ASCE-GT Specialty Conference on Embankments & Slopes, Geotech. Spec. Publ. #31, Vol. 2: pp. 1395-1410, July, 1992.

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  • Gray, D.H. and Sotir, R. (1996). Biotechnical and Soil Bioengineering Slope Stabilization. John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ

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This case study is derived from material appearing in the book Biotechnical and Soil Bioengineering Slope Stabilization coauthored by D.H. Gray and R. Sotir, published by John Wiley and Sons, 2007. This derivative material is reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Goldsmith, W., Gray, D., McCullah, J. (2014). Project #22: Greenfield Road. In: Bioengineering Case Studies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7996-3_23

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