A Sedimentological Continuum Occurring through Geologic Time: A Study for students

Exponential decrease in grain size with linear distance of sediment transport is expressed as a variation of Sternberg's Law. This variation is Y = Yoe-ax in which Y0 is the initial diameter of a particle, Y is the diameter of the particle after Travelling a distance X, and a is the slope of th...

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Published in:Atlantic Geology
Main Author: Pelletier, B. R.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Atlantic Geoscience Society 1980
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Online Access:https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/1367