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Sorting (sediment)

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Tangential sorting is the result of sediment being deposited in same direction as flow. Normal tangential sorting results in a gradient of sediment sizes deposited from largest to finest as they travel downstream. When sediments are deposited from smallest to largest as they travel downstream, this
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In reference to windblown sediment, a wide range of conditions such as distance and height of transport and varying wind patterns at the sediment source can affect grain size, rate of transport and distribution of sediment. Windblown sediment travels one of three ways--rolling,
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that is reworked by fluvial processes tends to have more poorly sorted sediment as compared to sediment sorted by only Aeolian processes because loess particles become mixed with preexisting sediment of varying grain sizes within bodies of water.
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The terms describing sorting in sediments – very poorly sorted, poorly sorted, moderately sorted, well sorted, very well sorted – have technical definitions and semi-quantitatively describe the amount of variance seen in particle
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Rocks derived from well sorted sediments are commonly both porous and permeable, while poorly sorted rocks have low
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size, which refers to the individual size of a crystal in a solid. Crystallite is the building block of a grain.
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use graphical charts to accurately describe the sorting of a sediment using one of these terms.
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Sediment consisting of well sorted grains (left) compared with poorly sorted grains (right).
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Sediment sorting is influenced by: grain sizes of sediment, processes involved in grain
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Distribution of grain sizes based on water depth and distance from river mouth.
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indicates that the sediment sizes are similar (low variance). In the field,
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grain size
sediments
unconsolidated
sedimentary rocks
rivers
debris flow
wind
glaciers
crystallite
variance
sedimentologists
porosity
permeability
transport
winnowing
deposition
saltation
Loess
Graded bedding
Rounding
Porosity
Soil texture
Deposition
Fluvial processes
Aeolian transport
Grain Size
Tucker, M.E.

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