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Pebble surface textures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

David Krinsley  and
Jack Donahue
David Krinsley
Affiliation:
Queens College, The City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367.
Jack Donahue
Affiliation:
Queens College, The City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367.
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Summary

An electron microscope examination of beach and glacial pebbles suggests that these two environments do not impress distinctively different textures on pebble surfaces. A detailed study of surface textures of beach pebbles indicates that size reduction is predominantly an abrasional rather than solutional process. The three textural features noted, flat planar surfaces, pits and arc-shaped fractures, were characterized by an abundance of mechanical breakage blocks slightly modified by solution. All three textural types were experimentally duplicated.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 105 , Issue 6 , December 1968 , pp. 521 - 525
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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