Particle size dynamics in abrading pebble populations

Sipos, András A.; Domokos, Gábor; Török, János

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-235-2021

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-235-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-235-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

Research article

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26 Mar 2021

Research article |

| 26 Mar 2021

Particle size dynamics in abrading pebble populations

András A. Sipos, Gábor Domokos, and János Török

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Final revised paper (published on 26 Mar 2021)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Review of Sipos et al.', David J. Furbish, 02 Nov 2020
- AC1: 'Reply', Andras A Sipos, 10 Nov 2020
RC1: 'Comments to Manuscript esurf-2020-84', Duccio Bertoni, 03 Dec 2020
- AC2: 'Reply', Andras A Sipos, 04 Dec 2020
RC2: 'Review of "Particle size dynamics in abrading pebble populations"', Sebastien Carretier, 10 Dec 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Andras A Sipos on behalf of the Authors (10 Jan 2021) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (19 Feb 2021) by Simon Mudd

AR by Andras A Sipos on behalf of the Authors (20 Feb 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (22 Feb 2021) by Simon Mudd

ED: Publish as is (23 Feb 2021) by Tom Coulthard (Editor)

AR by Andras A Sipos on behalf of the Authors (24 Feb 2021) Manuscript

Short summary

Abrasion of sedimentary particles is widely associated with mutual collisions. Utilizing results of individual, geometric abrasion theory and techniques adopted in statistical physics, a new model for predicting the collective mass evolution of large numbers of particles is introduced. Our model uncovers a startling fundamental feature of collective particle dynamics: collisional abrasion may either focus size distributions or it may act in the opposite direction by dispersing the distribution.