Author:
Ayogu C.N,Phil-eze P.O.,Ayogu N.O,Iweanya R.I
Abstract
Abstract
This study is aimed at identifying the characteristics of unconsolidated sediment in the Anambra drainage basin. Grain size parameters determined were: skewness, mean size, sorting, and kurtosis. A measurement of 100gramms of sediment samples were collected at 12 sampled station in rainy and dry season and were oven dried for sieve analysis. At the rainy and dry seasons, sediments mean size (MZ) were dominated by sand which spanned from coarse to fine. Sorting (δ1) ranged from poorly to moderately sorted while skewness (SKi) were positive to negative, while kurtosis (KG) was between leptokurtic to very leptokurtic. The sediment grain size showed no variation with respect to season because p>0.05(mean size (p = .138), sorting (p = .301) and skewness (p = .956).
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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