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Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology
Vol. 13 (1965), No. 3. (September), Pages 449-450

Abstracts: Grain Size Variations Inn the Beach Sands of Long Point Lake Erie

Terence Roger Watts

Ninety seven samples collected on a grid system from the terminal portion of Long Point were collected and subjected to mechanical analysis. Small scale investigations on ripple marking, carbonate content, mineralogy and roundness were also performed.

The beach sands are sub-angular, fine to medium grained and sub-arkose in composition. Aeolian ripple marking shows a poor orientation perpendicular to the wind direction whilst the wave ripple marks are orientated parallel to the shore.

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Reproducibility of mechanical analyses was established. From the frequency data comparisons were made between graphical and moment computational methods. Application of statistical methods showed that there was little correspondence between the two methods. Analysis of variance, trend analysis and test techniques showed that there was a large degree of uniformity of parameters on the beach. The sands were generally characterised by a narrow range of sizes, fairly good sorting, negative skewness and leptokurtosis. The beach showed a decrease in mean size, sorting and skewness and an increase in kurtosis from west to east. Invetigations on the inter-relationships of the four principal parameters indicated that a linear relationship existed between several of the parameters.

From the data it is concluded that the Long Point regimen is one characterised by wide shore line fluctuations which give a large degree of homogeneity to the beach sands.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND ASSOCIATED FOOTNOTES

1962, McMaster University, M.Sc.

Copyright © 2004 by The Society of Canadian Petroleum Geologists. All Rights Reserved.

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