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TEXTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SEDIMENTS OF THE TISTA RIVER, RANGPUR, BANGLADESH

By: Sudip Saha, Mrinal Kanti Roy, A.H.M. Selim Reza

Key Words: Tista River, Sand, Unimodal, Skewness and Leptokurtic

JLES-Vol-12-No-P-73-79, December 2017

Abstract

The sediments deposited in the Tista River basin are characterized by the dominance of sand particles mixed with pebbles. The present study reveals that the grain size decreases to the downstream direction. The mean grain size ranges from 0.95 to 3.62. The sands are occasionally laden with the coarser particles mostly with cobbles and pebbles of different rock fragments. This indicates that the sediments were deposited under high energy conditions. The sands are unimodal that reveal the sands were derived from a single source. Most of the samples are moderately well sorted to well sorted while few of them are poorly sorted, which are indicative of low to fairly high energy current. The negative skewness values indicate that the coarser admixtures exceed the fines. Sixty five percent of the sand samples are leptokurtic (better sorted in the central part than the tail of the size distribution), twenty four percent are very leptokurtic and eleven percent are mesokurtic.

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Sudip Saha, Mrinal Kanti Roy, A.H.M. Selim Reza

TEXTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SEDIMENTS OF THE TISTA RIVER, RANGPUR, BANGLADESH

JLES-Vol-12-No-P-73-79, December 2017

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