Geo-4D’s selection of shallow sampling and testing methods provide a cost-effective way to quickly characterise cable landfalls for trenching operations:

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• Determine beach bearing capacities for installation equipment and plant.

• Determine depth to shallow bedrock.

• Identify hard-to-trench coarse-grained sediments (gravel and cobbles).

• Identify and sample soft clay layers, that may pose a punch-through risk to plant and equipment and may pose a risk to cable thermal dissipation (i.e. low thermal conductivity).