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Discrimination of grain-size subpopulations in pyroclastic deposits.

  • Arizona State University

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Abstract

A cubic spline curve fit to histograms of grain-size data from pyroclastic deposits affords a rapid means to distinguish subpopulations in complex size distributions. Recurrent subpopulations with similar means and standard deviations are consistent among the more than 140 samples of pyroclastic-surge deposits from Sugarloaf in Arizona and Vulcano in Italy. -from Authors

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)367-370
Number of pages4
JournalGeology
Volume15
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1987

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