shepard: Shepard's (1954) grain-size classification.

Description Usage Details References See Also

Description

Values are percent grain-size due to sand, silt, and clay in sedimentary material.

Usage

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Details

For use in ternary plots.

References

Shepard, F.P. (1954), Nomenclature based on sand-silt-clay ratios, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 24, p. 151-158.

See Also

sand_silt_clay and shepard_plot


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