New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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VARIATIONS IN GRAIN-SIZE AND SORTING ON TWO KAIKOURA BEACHES

Roger F. McLean

Geography Department, University of Canterbury, Christchurch

Abstract Two exposed, high-energy beaches wi the Kaikoura coast of New Zealand are composed of sand and gravel derived from a greywacke terrain. Both beaches can be classified as mixed beaches although the sediment varies from dominantly gravel at the ends of the beach to dominantly sand at the centre, through transition zones in which sand and gravel are mixed. Sixty-four surface samples were analysed for grain size; two sediment parameters, mean grain size (M_z) and sorting (o-j), were calculated.

N.Z. .11 mar. Freshwat. Res. 4: 141-64
(Received for publication 28 October 1969)

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