Sediment Classification

Sheng R.S., Zhu L., Morris, M.D., Sedimentation classification of silver colloids for surface-enhanced Raman-scattering, Anal. Chem. 1986 58 1116-1119. 

R82103 Sampling Protocols for Collecting Surface Water, Bed Sediment, Bivalves, and Fish for Priority Pollutant Analysis Pinal Report 823R92006 Sediment Classification Methods Compendium... 

Lamberson, J.O. and Swartz, R.C. (1992) Spiked-sediment toxicity test approach, in Sediment Classification Compendium, EPA 823-R-92-006, U.S. EPA, Office ofWater, Washington, DC. 

Summarize and explain the main aspects of deep sea sediment classification. 

Examples from terrigenous and biogenic sedimentation provinces are presented (1) to illustrate the large variability of physical properties in different sediment types and (2) to establish a sediment classification which is only based on physical properties, in contrast to geological sediment classifications which mainly uses parameters like grain size distribution or mineralogical composition (Sect. 2.5). 

Full waveform ultrasonie eore logging was applied to terrigenous and biogenie sediment eores to analyze P-wave velocities and attenuation coefficients typical for the different settings. Together with the bulk parameters and the physical properties estimated by the inversion scheme they form the data base for a sediment classification which identifies different sediment types from their... 

Table 2.3 Geographical coordinates, water depth, core length, region and composition considered for the sediment classification in Section 2.5.

Mazullo J.M., Meyer A., Kidd R.B., 1988. New sediment classification scheme for the Ocean Drilling Program. In Mazullo JM, Graham AG (eds) Handbook for Shipboard Sedimentologists, Technical Note 8, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, Texas, pp 45 - 67... 

Summary diagram of JOIDES sediment classification employed after Leg 38 of the DSDP. (After Van Andel, Tj. H., Sediment Nomenclature and Sediment Classification during Phases I-III of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, In Deep Sea Drilling Project Initial Reports Methodology, Heath, G.R., ed., U.S. Government Printing Office,... 

Sedimentation field flow fractionation SdFFF Sedimentation classification 0.03 >1... 

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