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ALTHOUGH chemical analyses bf sands have frequently been made for industrial purposes, and mineral analyses are now a feature of geological investigations into the petrology of sediments, corn- paratively little attention has been paid to th mechanical composition. This is particularly the case in the matter of the inter-relation of the mechanical composition with either the chemical or mineral constitution.
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B., P. The Texture of Sands . Nature 103, 315–317 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103315a0
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