Use of gabions as retaining structures

This photo was taken in Kingsbury grade, California, USA.
The retained material is decomposed granite. The the
thickness of the gabion wall is 2-3ft (0.6-0.9m). You can
see that the thickness of the wall at the bottom is bigger,
forming a foundation. This is a very important issue to
avoid erosion below the wall which again leads to
failures, as it happened in the past.

References:

Information collected during the field trip in the Sierra
Nevada, as part of the "Engineering Geology" course
curriculum, instructed by Professor N. Sitar, Department
of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of
California at Berkeley.

Use of gabions as retaining structures

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