Table 3.3
Grain Size Data of Modern Sediments Tabulated by Weight % and Cumulative %
Sample A a
Sample B
Sample C
Sample D
Sample E
CumuWeight
lative
Weight
lative
Weight
lative
Weight
lative
Weight
lative
Grain Size
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
Granules
0.00
0-00
0.79
0-79
0.00
0-00
0.00
0-00
3-87
3- 87
Very coarse
0.00
0-00
1.10
1.84
0.00
0.00
0-05
0-05
22-75
26-62
Coarse
0.02
0-02
1.66
3.50
0.00
0.00
0.44
0-49
50-68
77.30
Medium
9.00
9.02
3-90
7-40
0.00
0.00
51-89
52-38
20.24
97- 54
Fine
90.26
99-28
10-65
18.05
0.00
0.00
47-57
99.95
2.20
99-74
Very fine
0.72
100.00
13.68
31.73
1.09
1.09
0.07
100-02
0-24
99-98
Silt
0.00
100-00
35-47
67.26
45-87
46.96
0-01
100.03
0.02
100.00
Clay
0.00
100.00
32.73
100.00
53.04
100.00
0.00
0-00
Total
100.00
99-98
100-00
100-03
100-00
a A, eolian coastal dune, Lincs., England; B, Pleistocene glacial till, Lincs., England; C, abyssal plain mud, Bay of Biscay; D, beach sand, Cornwall, England; E,
river sand, Dartmoor, England.
Data supplied by courtesy of G. Evans.