Fg. Bell et Mg. Culshaw, PETROGRAPHIC AND ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF SANDSTONES FROM THE SNEINTON FORMATION, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, 31, 1998, pp. 5-19
The Sneinton Formation occurs at the base of the Mercia Mudstone Group
and consists of sandstones with interbedded siltstones and mudstones.
The sample material was obtained from core from a 63 m deep borehole
sunk near Epperstone some 10 km north of Nottingham. The petrographic
characteristics, namely quartz content, clay size content, packing den
sity and particle size distribution of the sandstones, were determined
for a series of depths. In addition, the density, porosity, compressi
ve and indirect tensile strengths, hardness, modulus of deformation, P
oisson's ratio and slake durability index were determined for the same
depth intervals. The petrographic characteristics then were correlate
d with the physical and mechanical properties and the significance of
the relationships assessed by Student's t value. The individual physic
al and mechanical properties also were the correlated with each other
and the significance of the relationships similarly assessed.