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SOME METHODS TO STUDY SURFACE TEXTURES OF SAND GRAINS
Author(s) -
SOUTENDAM C. J. A.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
sedimentology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.494
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1365-3091
pISSN - 0037-0746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3091.1967.tb01328.x
Subject(s) - geology , quartz , texture (cosmology) , mineralogy , paleontology , image (mathematics) , artificial intelligence , computer science
SUMMARY For the study of the surface textures of quartz sand grains the normal microscope was used, besides the sofar generally applied electron microscope, and a new method was developed for using incident illumination. Grains from a desert sand and a river sand were studied, the former grains displayed textures not described yet by previous authors, the latter grains possessed a variety of textures, some of which have been found with beach sand grains, others with glacial sand grains by previous investigators.