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Identifying sediment transport mechanisms from grain size–shape distributions, applied to aeolian sediments
Johannes Albert van Hateren
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Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, the Netherlands
Unze van Buuren
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, the Netherlands
Sebastiaan Martinus Arens
Bureau for Beach and Dune Research, Soest, the Netherlands
Ronald Theodorus van Balen
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, the Netherlands
TNO – Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Utrecht, 3584 CB, the
Netherlands
Maarten Arnoud Prins
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, the Netherlands
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Short summary
In this paper, we introduce a new technique that can be used to identify how sediments were transported to their place of deposition (transport mode). The traditional method is based on the size of sediment grains, ours on the size and the shape. A test of the method on windblown sediments indicates that it can be used to identify the transport mode with less ambiguity, and therefore it improves our ability to extract information, such as climate from the past, from sediment deposits.
In this paper, we introduce a new technique that can be used to identify how sediments were...
