Section 4-Soil Boring Location Plan

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I take the exam tomorrow and have never developed a soil boring location plan and am having difficulty locating information on what to study in preparation.

[Emily Neuenschwander]

Any luck finding information on this?  

[Ardeshir Nikzad]

Refer to questions 25 and 26 of the Clarb sample exam.

I think they will show different soil profiles and ask different types of questions based on those.

[Joel Grogan]

Hi,

The soil boring plan shows the location where soil boring will be done, often denoted by a small simple symbol with an accompanying alpha/numeric code ( 1, A, or whatever). Often times the boring will be done by a qualified soils engineer or geotech, and the results used to site buildings and/or design appropriate footing/foundations. It's purpose is to get information about the soil composition in different layers sometimes including depth to bedrock.

Many of the CLARB practice questions basically have soil boring plans - the ones that show you soil bore samples have marks A, B, C on the plan, then you look at the 'exhibits' that show a section of what the bore looked like.

Here is a simple example.

Good luck!

Joel

[Joel G]

** Small detail, but I should say the plan denotes where the borings will and/or have been taken, as you refer back to them once you have the results