Textural characteristics of fluvial sediments in the Kosi River Basin, Bihar, India
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https://doi.org/10.51710/jias.v41iI.319Keywords:
Textural analysis, Statistical Parameters, Bivariant plots, CM pattern, KurtosisAbstract
The fluvial sediment samples collected from the Kosi River Basin, Bihar were subjected to textural analysis. The textural parameters were computed using the appropriate phi values. Statistical metrics including mean, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis were estimated. From the findings, the mean size of river sand has been observed from medium to fine-grained nature (between 0.97 ? and 2.72 ?). Within the range of 0.50 ? to 0.77 ?, the standard deviation denotes a moderately well-sorted to moderately sorted nature. The sediment samples exhibit skewness values ranging from -0.344 ? to 0.267 ?. The Kurtosis varies between 0.86 ? and 1.9 ?, indicating a leptokurtic to mesokurtic nature. Thus, the statistical measures have revealed that sediments are dominant in the medium sand category, moderately well sorted, finely skewed, and fall under leptokurtic character. The bivariate plots constructed between the statistical metrics indicate the unimodal nature of sediments.
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