Genetically meaningful decomposition of grain-size distributions

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 409-424

  Weltje, Gert Jan ^a   Prins, Maarten A ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; End member modelling; Grain size distribution; Mixing; Unmixing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; GRAIN SIZE; INVERSE PROBLEM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 36048971146     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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