On the shapes of natural sand grains

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Barclay, David R ^a   Buckingham, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GRAIN SIZE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; POWER LAW; SAND;

EID: 66149192426     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005993     Document Type: Article

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