Progressive grain-size sorting along an intertidal energy gradient

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 464-472

  Bartholoma A ^a   Flemming, B W ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grain size sorting; Morphology; Skewness; Tidal systems

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SETTLING VELOCITY; SKEWNESS; SORTING; TIDAL FLAT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EAST FRISIAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRISIAN ISLANDS; GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY; NORTH SEA; SPIEKEROOG; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 36048994712     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.03.010     Document Type: Article

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