Resumen de Estudio de las propiedades geotécnicas de los sedimentos acumulados en el embalse de la presa de Proserpina (Mérida, España)

J. A. Díez Torres, Juan Carlos de Cea Azañedo, C. Olalla Marañón, Mónica Añorbe Urmeneta

• This work study the geotechnica/ and mineralogical characteristics of the sediments acumulated since the Romans epoch in the Porserpina dam (200 A.C.) sited in Mérida (Badajoz, Spain).

  From the geologica/ point of view it's a very recent deposit, aging less than 2000 years; very soft and saturated, with silty-c!ay granurality and coming from the sourronding granitic rocks degradation. Multiple field and laboratory geotecnic tests are conducted over unaltered sampfes from whitch identification, state, strength and deformability properties are obtained using technics far soft soils characterization like seismics tests, geophysic testification tests ar piezocone and vane tests.