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Laminae and grain-size measures in beach sediments, east coast beaches, India

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Title Laminae and grain-size measures in beach sediments, east coast beaches, India
 
Creator Chauhan, O.S.
 
Description The studies of size parameters in 1.8 mm slices in 36 4-cm long cores from different physiographic units of 4 beaches along the east coast of India, having beach states from "reflective" to "dissipative", suggest significant variations in these parameters. Individual layers have wider ranges of mean sizes, variable sorting, skewness and kurtosis values. These variations are pronounced and are observed in fine grained dark laminae as well as interlaminae space. These results suggest variations in micro-layer structure of beach sediments at berm/backshore, foreshore and offshore regions. The sediments from the 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0-cm layers as well as from the full core show effects of mixing of the individual micro-layers. The degree of correlation, relative to the 1.8 mm layer, decreases with increase in the depth of sampling. Amongst all the measures, statistical correlation was found to be poorest for sorting index and skewness measures
 
Date 2009-05-08T11:56:22Z
2009-05-08T11:56:22Z
1992
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Journal of Coastal Research, Vol.8; 172-182p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/3047
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [1992]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher Coastal Research Foundation