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THIN‐SECTION SIZE ANALYSIS AND THE MOMENT PROBLEM
Author(s) -
SAHU BASANTA K.
Publication year - 1968
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.1365-3091.1968.tb01107.x
Subject(s) - clastic rock , section (typography) , geology , series (stratigraphy) , moment (physics) , geometry , distribution (mathematics) , grain size , thin section , second moment of area , mineralogy , mathematics , mathematical analysis , paleontology , physics , geomorphology , sedimentary rock , classical mechanics , advertising , business
SUMMARY The observed size in the thin‐section is less than the true grain sizes of the clastic rock as the thin‐section plane does not necessarily pass through the centre of gravity of the grains. Correction factors based on probability theory give corrected arithmetic moments of the size distribution in the clastic rock from the observed arithmetic moments of the size distribution in the thin‐section. The corrected arithmetic moments so obtained are transformed to their equivalent corrected phi moments which are useful to generate the unknown size distribution of the clastic rock by the help of Edgeworth's series.