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Udden-Wentworth grain-size scale: a standalone construct

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Sedimentology

a geometric grain-size scale with class boundaries at powers of two millimetres that defines clay, silt, sand, granule, pebble, cobble and boulder.

In sedimentology, Udden-Wentworth grain-size scale refers to a geometric grain-size scale with class boundaries at powers of two millimetres that defines clay, silt, sand, granule, pebble, cobble and boulder. This meaning comes from Wentworth (1922) in The Journal of Geology.[1]

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References

Wentworth, C. K. (1922). A Scale of Grade and Class Terms for Clastic Sediments. The Journal of Geology, 30(5), 377-392. https://doi.org/10.1086/622910

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