Question

The term ‘silt’ in particle size classification system, can be replaced by ___________

(a) Silt size

(b) Clay size

(c) Silt type

(d) None of the mentioned

The question was posed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

Asked question is from Soils topic in chapter Classification of Soils of Geotechnical Engineering I

Answer 1

Right choice is (a) Silt size

To explain: As the system is classified based on size, it is preferable to use the word ‘silt size’ and ‘clay size’ in place of simply ‘silt’ or ‘clay’.