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  • Quantifying particle aggregation in sediments

    Author(s)
    Haberlah, David
    Mctainsh, Grant H
    Griffith University Author(s)
    McTainsh, Grant H.
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Sediments often occur as non-normal size distributions composed of discrete, partially aggregated particle populations. These populations reflect provenance, dispersal pathways and their depositional environments. Recent experimental laboratory studies describing mud flocculation in turbulent marine systems prompted this investigation of the potential of aggregates to record size-sensitive transport dynamics in a terrestrial fluvial system. Here, sediment-size distributions in their natural condition of particle-aggregate mixtures are analysed by parametric statistics. A practical and freely available decompositional approach ...
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    Sediments often occur as non-normal size distributions composed of discrete, partially aggregated particle populations. These populations reflect provenance, dispersal pathways and their depositional environments. Recent experimental laboratory studies describing mud flocculation in turbulent marine systems prompted this investigation of the potential of aggregates to record size-sensitive transport dynamics in a terrestrial fluvial system. Here, sediment-size distributions in their natural condition of particle-aggregate mixtures are analysed by parametric statistics. A practical and freely available decompositional approach is outlined and field tested, which allows sediment to be viewed in both its conventional particulate form and as its naturally occurring mixture of transport-stable aggregates and elementary particles. From a sequence of upward-fining slack water couplets in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, it is demonstrated that the characteristics, provenance and depositional history of fine-grained sediments consisting of particle-aggregate mixtures can best be understood fully by quantifying aggregation.
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    Journal Title
    Sedimentology
    Volume
    58
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01201.x
    Subject
    Geology
    Sedimentology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/37614
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