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dc.contributor.authorHaberlah, David
dc.contributor.authorMctainsh, Grant H
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:22:06Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:22:06Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2013-05-29T08:37:05Z
dc.identifier.issn0037-0746
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01201.x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/37614
dc.description.abstractSediments 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1208
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1216
dc.relation.ispartofissue5
dc.relation.ispartofjournalSedimentology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume58
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchGeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSedimentology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3705
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode370509
dc.titleQuantifying particle aggregation in sediments
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2011
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorMcTainsh, Grant H.


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