Reply: Application of the QDa-Md method of environmental discrimination to particle size analyses of fine sediments by pipette and sedigraph methods

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 479-481

  Duck, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis; Pipette method; QDa Md method; Sedigraph

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343955651     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199605)21:5<479::AID-ESP635>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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