Comparing spatial grain-size trends inferred from textural parameters using percentile statistical parameters and those based on the log-hyperbolic method

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 436-452

  Bartholdy, Jesper ^a   Christiansen, Christian ^a   Pedersen, Jørn B T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Denmark; Grain size distributions; Grain size trends; Log hyperbolic; Log normal; Skallingen

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TEXTURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; NORTHERN EUROPE; RIBE; SCANDINAVIA; SKALLINGEN PENINSULA; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 36048957291     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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