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bimodal texture curves

  • A new depositional model for sand-rich loess on the Buckley Flats outwash plain, northwestern Lower Michigan

    This landscape was originally interpreted as loess mixed with underlying sands. This paper re-evaluates this landscape through a spatial analysis of data from auger samples and soil pits. To better estimate the loamy sediment’s initial textures, we utilized “filtered” laser diffraction data, which remove much of the coarser sand data. Our new model for the origin of the loamy mantle suggests that the sands on the uplands were generated from eroding gullies and saltated onto the uplands along with loess that fell more widely. Read More

    5 February 2018

  • Particle Size Analysis Toolpack v2

    A zip file containing a suite of tools for analyzing continuous particle size curves from laser diffractometry. Includes: export templates for Malvern software, analysis template… Read More

    24 January 2015

  • Filtering Particle Size Distribution of Mixed Sediments (2012 INQUA Loess Conference)

    Loess-FilterDownload… Read More

    19 March 2014

  • Thin, pedoturbated, and locally sourced loess in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan

    County soil surveys document thin loess deposits across large tracts of Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula (UP), which we informally call the Peshekee loess. Our study is the first to examine the distribution, thickness and textural characteristics of these loess deposits, and speculate as to their origins. We introduce and describe a method by which the mixed sand data are removed, or “filtered out,” of the original particle size data, to better reflect the original textural characteristics of the loess. Read More

    9 November 2012

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