Ground Conditions in Al-MadinahAl-Munawarah, Saudi Arabia · Saudi Arabia MOHAMMAD IBRAHIM MATSAH*...
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Ground Conditions in Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah,Saudi Arabia
MOHAMMAD IBRAHIM MATSAH* and D ELWAR HOSSAIN H
., Department ofStructural Geology and Remote Sensing,"<Departm ent of Engineering Geology, Faculty of Earth Sciences,
King A bdu laziz Universit y , Ieddah , Saudi Arabia
AUSTRAC1. Th e Saudi A ra bian City o f AI-Madinah is situ ated in a depositional basin surrounded by lava plateau s and hills within the western pari o fthe A rabian Shield. Within a maximum depth of 45 rn, the sub-soil in AIMadin ah con sists o f nine soil typ es (on e "fill" , six natural co hes ive and twoco hesio nless) a nd three rock typ es. Th e co hesive soi ls var y from highl ycompre ssible or ganic clay and soft co mpress ible/swelling grey-green clay 10
hard clay while the cohesionless soil s are of medium to ver y dense relativeden sity. Th e rocks vary from weak limest one to massive gabbrow, Th e " fill"a nd so me of the o ther so ils occur at the top while th e rocks occu r either a tdepth or as isolated hilly out crops .
Poor o r pro blcrn utic ground conditions arc en countered down to amaximum depth of 15 m in some areas to the south . east and north-east ofth e Prophet's Mosque due to the presen ce of weak soils with high compressibility and/or swell potential.
Pr ot ective mea sur es for foundati on con crete and reinforcement arenece ssar y due to agg ressive gro und conditions. Ground water co nt ro l measur es a re generally not required for usu al constructio ns .
l. Introduction
The holy city of AI-Madinah AI-Munawarah is located in Western Saudi Arabia. Therecent oil-boom initiated a large volume of development work in it. The site investigation reports of some of the recent major projects of AI-Madinah like the large-scaleexpansion of the Prophet 's Holy Mosque and The Ring Roads contain a large volumeof geotechnical data about the AI-M adinah sub-soil which has little been studied except for Erol et al. (1981) , Dhowian et al. (1990) (on the swelling potential of two AIMadinah clays) , Sabbagh and Abuzaid (1991) (on reduction of swelling pressure of a
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