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The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database
Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)
Abstract
Sorting Nomenclatural Assortment
richard L. Threet
ABSTRACT
While "assorted" connotes miscellany, and "sorted" (graded) connotes singularity, the literature of sedimentology is confused occasionally by such unnecessary terms as "well-assorted" (intended to mean "well-sorted") and "unassorted" (which ought to mean not assorted, hence "sorted," but which is intended to mean "poorly-sorted"). Further confusion comes about in engineering geology and engineering literature by use of "uniformly-graded" (intended to mean uniform frequency distribution of various textural grades, hence "poorly-sorted"). To avoid ambiguity, various derivatives of "assorted" and "to assort" should be abandoned; "uniformly-graduated (texture)" may be an appropriate term for mechanically stable engineering soils of high density.
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