http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/lithology/gravel_size_sediment
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definition | Sediment containing greater than 30 percent gravel-size particles (greater than 2.0 mm diameter). Composition or gensis of clasts not specified. | ![]() |
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narrower |
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source | SLTTs 2004; particle sizes defined from Krumbein phi scale (W C Krumbein and L L Sloss, Stratigraphy and Sedimentation, 2nd edition, Freeman, San Francisco, 1963; Krumbein and Pettijohn, 1938, Manual of Sedimentary Petrography: New York, Appleton Century Co., Inc.) | ![]() |
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broader |
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in scheme | simplelithology | |||||||||||||||||
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is primary topic of | gravel size sediment& properties=type |