Bias and precision of percentiles of bulk grain size

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1061-1077

  Ferguson, R I ^a   Paola, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Gravel; Percentiles; Precision; Sampling

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; GRAVEL;

EID: 0031429505     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199711)22:11<1061::AID-ESP809>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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