Depositional environment of sediments along the southern coast of Tamil Nadu, India

Grain size studies of sediments from beaches in the region from Mandapam toKanyakumari, divided into 5 sectors, indicate that sediments are unimodal topolymodal in nature, coarse to fine grained, moderately to poorly sorted, andpositively-negatively skewed in character. The inference to be drawn fro...

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Main Authors: Nimalanathan Angusamy, G. Victor Rajamanickam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2006-03-01
Series:Oceanologia
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Online Access:http://www.iopan.gda.pl/oceanologia/48_1.html#A6