"Published in cooperation with [the] Engineering Publications Office, College of Engineering." "Under the sponsorship of the University of Illinois and the Institute for Oceanography, ESSA." Includes bibliographical references.

Prodelta clays of southeast Louisiana / Charles R. Kolb and Robert I. Kaufman -- Progress of consolidation in delta front and prodelta clays of the Mississippi River / Bramlette McClelland -- Shear strength and consolidation characteristics of marine sediments from the western Gulf of Mexico / William R. Bryant, Paul Cernock and Jack Morelock -- Measurements of the acoustic and geotechnical properties of marine sediment cores / S. Buchan [and others] -- Investigations of deep-sea sediment cores. 3, Consolidation / Adrian F. Richards and Edwin L. Hamilton -- Laboratory consolidation of carbonate sediment / Eugene C. Robertson -- Interpretation of strength and consolidation data from some bottom cores off Tel-Aviv-Palmakhim coast, Israel / Gideon Almagor -- Sedimentary processes and physical properties of cores from the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and off the Nile Delta / Gerhard Einsele -- Geotechnical properties of recent marine sediments from the Arabian Sea and the Baltic Sea / F.C. Kèogler -- Geochemical and strength aspects of Bothnian clay sediments / Allan Jerbo -- Submarine slumping and the initiation of turbidity currents / N.R. Morgenstern -- Slides in subaqueous slopes in loose sand and silt / A. Andresen and L. Bjerrum -- Obtaining large, undisturbed, and orientated samples in deep water / Andre M. Rosfelder and Neil F. Marshall -- In-place soil mechanics measurements / Ronald F. Scott -- Plate-load tests on sandy marine sediments, lower Chesapeake Bay / W. Harrison and A.M. Richardson Jr. -- Effects of explosive loading on the strength of sea-floor sands / Robert F. Dill -- Nondestructive measurement of the water content and bulk density of sediment using radioisotopes / Kenneth Preiss -- Basic literature of marine geotechnique and related fields / Adrian F. Richards.