<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article presents the grain size distribution of soil samples from the Precambrian basement within the purview of the textural properties, deduced transportation history and the numerical assessments using statistical parameters. The fourteen soil samples collected from the study area were subjected to sieve analysis in the laboratory for the determination of their grain size distribution. The statistical parameters’ study includes the graphic mean, skewness, sorting and kurtosis. The result of the analysis of the soil samples ranged from coarse to fine-grained samples, moderately and poorly sorted, positively and negatively skewed and the kurtosis also shows leptokurtic as the most dominant which suggests the samples poorly distributed and moderately sorted at the centre of the grain size distribution. These results also suggest the geological environment of the soil samples could be responsible for the poorly and moderately sorted exhibited by the samples deposited in the location.</p></abstract>

The article presents the grain size distribution of soil samples from the Precambrian basement within the purview of the textural properties, deduced transportation history and the numerical assessments using statistical parameters. The fourteen soil samples collected from the study area were subjected to sieve analysis in the laboratory for the determination of their grain size distribution. The statistical parameters’ study includes the graphic mean, skewness, sorting and kurtosis. The result of the analysis of the soil samples ranged from coarse to fine-grained samples, moderately and poorly sorted, positively and negatively skewed and the kurtosis also shows leptokurtic as the most dominant which suggests the samples poorly distributed and moderately sorted at the centre of the grain size distribution. These results also suggest the geological environment of the soil samples could be responsible for the poorly and moderately sorted exhibited by the samples deposited in the location.

Assessment and Analysis of Precambrian Basement Soil Deposits Using Grain Size Distribution

Materials and Geoenvironment

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Ocena in analiza predkambrijskih nahajališč zemljin z uporabo porazdelitve velikosti zrn

The article presents the grain size distribution of soil samples from the Precambrian basement within the purview of the textural properties, deduced...

Assessment and Analysis of Precambrian Basement Soil Deposits Using Grain Size Distribution

Article Category: Original scientific paper

Published Online: Jun 13, 2020

Page range: 235 - 243

Received: Nov 20, 2019

Accepted: Dec 12, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rmzmag-2019-0019

Keywords
Deposition, Grain size analysis, Kurtosis, Skewness, Provenance

© 2020 Gideon Layade et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Assessment and Analysis of Precambrian Basement Soil Deposits Using Grain Size Distribution

Article Category: Original scientific paper

Published Online: Jun 13, 2020

Page range: 235 - 243

Received: Nov 20, 2019

Accepted: Dec 12, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rmzmag-2019-0019

KeywordsDeposition, Grain size analysis, Kurtosis, Skewness, Provenance

© 2020 Gideon Layade et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Deposition, Grain size analysis, Kurtosis, Skewness, Provenance