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Grain size trends associated with net sediment transport patterns: an example from the Belgian continental shelf
Gao, S.; Collins, M.B.; Lanckneus, J.; De Moor, G.; Van Lancker, V.R.M. (1994). Grain size trends associated with net sediment transport patterns: an example from the Belgian continental shelf. Mar. Geol. 121(3-4): 171-185
In: Marine Geology. Elsevier: Amsterdam. ISSN 0025-3227; e-ISSN 1872-6151, more
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    Marine/Coastal

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  • Gao, S.
  • Collins, M.B.
  • Lanckneus, J., more
  • De Moor, G., more
  • Van Lancker, V.R.M., more

Abstract
    Grain size trends in relation to net sediment transport pathways are examined, using some commonly-used grain size parameters. The results of the trend analysis (for 15 types of the trends) are compared with a known net sediment transport pathways established on the basis of the sandbank hydro- and sediment-dynamics (i.e. general water and sediment movement patterns and bedform asymmetry). It is shown that: (1) the results for grain size trends associated with "a worsening in sorting along the transport pathways" have little similarity to transport pathways; (2) the results for grain size trends associated with "an improvement in sorting along the transport pathways" have relatively high degree of similarity to the identified pathways; and (3) the residual pattern, derived on the basis of a combined grain size trend used elsewhere (Gao and Collins, 1992) appears to be most similar and suitable for defining transport pathways.

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