WHERE?
WHY?
WHAT?
“ Diameter of individual grains of sediment
OR
The lithified particles in clastic rocks, “
WHY?
Sedimentation Energy
Erosion Characteristics
Grain Size Scale (+) 4 Scales (+) Phi Equation (+) 4 Scales
(clay, silt, sand, gravel) Block (4,1 -65,5 m)
Slab (65,5 m -1,0 km)
(+) Scale Range Monolith (1,0 km – 33,6 km)
<1/256 mm until >1/256 mm Megalith (>33,6 km)
WHO?
J. A. Udden (1898)
Published in
1914,
“Mechanical
Composition of
Clastic
Sediments”
WHO? Clay
Published in 1922,
“A Scale of Grade Silt
and Class Terms
for Clastic
Sediments”
Sand
Udden + Wentworth =
Udden Wentworth Grain Scale Gravel
WHO?
Krumbein (1934) Φ = Krumbein Phi
Scale
D = Particle diameter
from Udden-
Wentworth Scale (mm)
D0 = Reference
diameter (1 mm)
WHO?
International Scale (2002)
WHERE?
“ a Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilled Sailor, “
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