Much of the world's surface, even under the oceans, is covered in thick deposits of sedimentary particles - gravel, sand, silt and clay. The nature of the deposits and their formation is very much dependent on the distribution of particles of different sizes. However, different instruments measure different attributes of a particle's size, based on how fast a particle settles in water, or the surface area of a particle, or its length. This book provides information on the how and why of particle size analysis in terms of understanding these sediment deposits.
Contents
List of contributors page
Preface
Acknowledgments
I Introduction
1 Principles and methods of geological
particle size analysis - I. N. McCave and James P. M. Syvitski
2 The effect of grain shape and density on size measurement - Martin D. Matthews
3 The effect of pretreatment on size analysis - Martin D. Matthews
II Theory and methods
4 Principles, design, and calibration of settling tubes - James P. M. Syvitski, Kenneth W. Asprey, andD. A. Clattenburg
5 Methodology of sieving small samples and calibration of sieve set - Kristian Dalsgaard, Jens Ledet Jensen, and Michael S0rensen
6 Image analysis method of grain size measurement - Stephen K. Kennedy and Jim Mazzullo
1 Quantitative grain form analysis - Julian D. Orford and W. Brian Whalley
8 Electroresistance particle size analyzers - T. G. Milligan and Kate Kranck
9 Laser diffraction size analysis 1- Y. C. Agrawal, I. N. McCave, and J. B. Riley
10 SediGraph technique = John P. Coakley and James P. M. Syvitski
11 Size, shape, composition, and structure of microparticles from light scattering - Miroslaw Jonasz
12 Textural maturity of arenaceous rocks derived by microscopic grain size analysis in thin section - Song Tianrui
13 Interlaboratory, interinstrument calibration experiment - James P. M. Syvitski, K. William G. LeBlanc, and Kenneth W. Asprey
III In situ methods
14 In situ size measurements of suspended particles in estuarine and coastal waters using laser diffraction - A. J. Bale and A. W. Morris
15 The Floe Camera Assembly - David E. Heffler, James P. M. Syvitski, and Kenneth W. Asprey
IV Data interpretation and manipulation
16 Suite statistics: The hydrodynamic evolution of the sediment pool - William F. Tanner
17 The hyperbolic distribution - Christian Christiansen and Daniel Hartmann
18 Factor analysis of size frequency distributions: Significance of factor solutions based on simulation experiments - James P. M. Syvitski
19 Experimental-theoretical approach to interpretation of grain size frequency distributions - Supriya Sengupta, J. K. Ghosh, and B. S. Mazumder
V Applications
20 Application of suitestatistics to stratigraphyand sea-level changes - William F. Tanner
21 Application of sizesequence data to glacial-paraglacial sedimenttransport and sedimentpartitioning - Jay A. Stravers, James P. M. Syvitski, and Dan B. Praeg
22 The use of grain sizeinformation in marinegeochemistry - Dale E.Buckley and Ray E.Cranston
23 Grain size inoceanography - Kate Kranck and T.G.Milligan
24 The need for grain sizeanalyses in marinegeotechnical studies - Frances J. Hein
Index