How river rocks round: Resolving the shape-size paradox

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Domokos, Gabor ^a   Jerolmack, Douglas J ^b   Sipos, Andras Á ^a   Török, Ákos ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; FINING; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; RIVER ROCK; ROCK; ROUNDING; SEDIMENT; WATER FLOW; WATER TRANSPORT; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; RIVER; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

MINERAL;

ALGORITHMS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MINERALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RIVERS;

EID: 84895756979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088657     Document Type: Article

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