Rice Campus Geology
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Description: Describes the land used for the campus and explains the good and bad of the soil conditions, especially how it exacerbates flooding and is causing subsidence damage to campus buildings.
Rice University was constructed in an area generally underlain by overbank deposits (fine clay-rich muds) of the Beaumont Clay formation. Locally, there are siltier soils and sediments deposited in small fluvial channels (e.g., the former Harris Gulch); the latter riparian areas are characterized by old tree stands whereas originally (ca. 1900) the rest of the campus area consisted of coastal prairie or marsh environments (
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| Page title: | Rice Campus Geology |
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| IP-address: | 128.42.204.107 |
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| NS | Name Servers: NS1.RICE.EDU 128.42.209.32 NS2.RICE.EDU 128.42.178.32 |
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| Date | activated: 24-Apr-1985 last updated: 17-Aug-2011 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |