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Sediment Kurtosis

Sediment Kurtosis is a statistical measure of the peakedness or flatness of the grain-size distribution curve relative to a normal distribution, used to describe the concentration and tail characteristics of sediment particle sizes.

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Surficial Sediments of Lake Erie

R. L. Thomas, J.‐M. Jaquet, A.L.W. Kemp et al. · Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada · 1976 · 115 citations

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Significance of skewness and kurtosis in environmental interpretation

L. R. Martins · Journal of Sedimentary Research · 1965 · 85 citations

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G2Sd: a new R package for the statistical analysis of unconsolidated sediments

Jérôme Fournier, Régis Gallon, Raphaël Paris · Géomorphologie relief processus environnement · 2014 · 56 citations

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Grain size discrimination between sands of desert and coastal dunes from northwestern Mexico

Juan José Kasper‐Zubillaga, Arturo Carranza‐Edwards · Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) · 2005 · 54 citations

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Interpretation of moment measures derived from water‐lain sediments

P. G. Sly, R. L. Thomas, Bernard Pelletier · Sedimentology · 1983 · 54 citations

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Authors

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  1. ZD
    Zhibao Dong

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    2 publications · 63 citations

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  2. ZZ
    Zhengcai Zhang

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    2 publications · 63 citations

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  3. RL
    R. L. Thomas

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    2 publications · 169 citations

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  4. HA
    Hind Azidane

    Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment, Morocco

    1 publications · 22 citations

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  5. JF
    Jérôme Fournier

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    1 publications · 56 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    189 citations

  2. Florida State University

    Tallahassee, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    55 citations

  3. Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans

    Clermont-Ferrand, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    56 citations

  4. University of Algarve

    Faro, Portugal

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    28 citations

  5. Polytechnic University of Bari

    Bari, Italy

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  6. Progamme National Contre le Tuberculose

    Cotonou, Benin

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  7. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

    Mexico City, Mexico

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    108 citations

  8. University of Basrah

    Basra, Iraq

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Sedimentary Research

    JSR · 6 publications · 225 citations

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  2. Sedimentology

    3 publications · 138 citations

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  3. Marine Georesources and Geotechnology

    2 publications · 36 citations

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  4. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science

    EES · Conference · 1 publications · 14 citations

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  5. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja)

    Repository · 1 publications · 54 citations

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