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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE GRADETERMS
FragmentTerms
Aggregate Terms
Rock Terms
THE CLASSTERMS
INTRODUCTION
378
CHESTER K. WENTWORTH
GRADE
TERMS
TERMS
CHESTER K. WENTWORTH
380
381
The Pieces
Bowlder
256 mm.
Cobble
64 mm.
Pebble
4 mm.
Granule
2 mm.
Very coarse sand grain
I mm.
Coarse sand grain
Bowlder gravel
Bowlder conglomerate
Cobble gravel
Cobble conglomerate
Pebble gravel
Pebble conglomerate
Granule gravel
Granule conglomerate
Coarse sand
Coarse sandstone
Medium sand
Medium sandstone
Fine sand
Fine sandstone
Silt
Siltstone
Clay
Claystone
I/2 mm.
382
CHESTER K. WENTWORTH
FIG. I
TERMS
by
XXV
Basin,
sand sand
gravel sand sand sand mm.mm. mm.-mm.
mm. mm.- mm.
fine
i
coarse
1/2
I/4
Fine
1/8
Coarse
Granule-I - Medium Very
-/16
Very
gravel gravel
mm.
mm.Proposed
256
Classification
Here Bowlder Cobble
gravel
Pebble
Bakertt
A.
H.
Silt
Clay
1/256
-
Vol.
Sediments
London
the Amer.,
of
Soc.
Arenaceous
Side
18.
Geol.
silt
gravel
sand silt silt
clay mm.clay
gravel sand sand
17,Loose
bowlders gravel
siltmm. mm.
mm. mm.clay
sand
mm.mm.mm.bowlders
mm.
mm. mm.mm. mm.-mm.
gravel
mm. mm. mm. mm. mm.
fine
of
bowlders
bowlders
Bull.
mm.fine
pp. Southern
4 2
16 8
1/2 1/4Fine
1/8 I/i6
Fine
256 128
smallcoarse
I/32
1/64
Fine
Coarse
1/256
1/512
I/I28
the
Fine Coarse
1/10241/2048
Medium VeryCoarse
Medium
Coarse
Medium Very
Medium
Large Small
of
Medium
Very
-64 ----32
- Very
--i --(1906),
BedsSediments,"
Constitution
Book
___ sand
-silt
sand sand
Thanet
sand mm.
Clastic
Field
mm.
mm.
mm.l
mm. mm.-mm.-Silt
the of
Clay
S
coarse
2
Gravel
Mechanical
.25
.05
.0O
to
Fine-.1Coarse
-ICoarse
-.5Medium
the
Survey
Very
of
-64
Udden
A.
J.
mm.
-2
Soil
-sand
sand sand
sand mm.
mm.
Gravel
mm.mm.
mm. mm.fine
2
I
.25
.05
Fine
- Fine
- Coarse
-.5Medium -.1Very
--
Soils
of
States**
Bureau
United
mm.
Silt
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sand
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mm. mm.gravel
mm. mm.fine
.
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-i -.5Medium
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II
Gravel
Clay
silt
Silt
mm.
mm.Clay
.01
Finest
mm.
-.005
.05
TABLE
Orth[
Gravel
sand-
m.
sand sand
sand
mm. mm. mm.- mm.
coarse
i
3
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- Coarse
Medium
Very
-.5
-
dust
gravel
sand
-
.02
-
- flour
mm.- size
rock
mm.
.o1 .oo5 Clay
- uperfine
sand sand
mm. mm.
mm.
gravel
mm.- mm.
fine
3
.04
.26
.89 45Fine
Fine Coarse
Medium Very Fine-fine
-
Keilhackt
K.
Gravel
sand
sand
sand sand
sand mm.
mm.
mm. mm. mm.- mm.-mm.Dust
2 coarse
.05
.0O
F.2 Fine.1
-ICoarse
-.5 Medium Superfine
Very
-
Coarse
Gravel
Chapelot
fir
Ferdinand
R.
Company.
&
Paris,Jahrbuch
Stuttgart,
64,Seiler
p.
G. Neues
286.
Auflage,
A.
p.
2teanciens,
etYork,
Kornes.
(1913),
(1908), des 380.
New
actuel
p.
Grbsse
Geologie
(1913),
Stratigraphy (1902),
der
of sous-marins
iSo
dust
Finest
- flour
sand
sandsand sand
size
flour
mm.rock
mm. mm.-mm.
mm.
mm.Fine mm. mm.i
gravel
.i
.05
S5
.25
.0O
Clay
Fine
Rock
- Coarse
-.5Medium Superfine
- Superfine
-.065
-
City*
York
Aqueduct
Commission
New
Cie.
&
Enke.
Mineralogie,
Finest
sand sandsand
Thoulett
J.
States
Baker,
Dulan
Udden,
Elutriation,
A. of A.655-744.
J. pp.
United
H.
$4
** tft London,
Method
2,
thep. (1914),
mm.
Dust
sand
sand
gravel mm. sand
sand mm. flour
mm.
mm.
gravel
mm.
mm.-mm.Grabau
mm.
mm. mm.i
5
.i .05
.25
2.5coarse
150 Cobblescourse
Bowlders
Fine
W.
Rock
Fine-Coarse
-50
Coarse
Medium Superfine
A.
Very
7ery
-25
-.5
--
Reference
Composition
Soils,
of Special
Investigation
1920.
thewith
Co.,
Bureau
On & "Mechanical
nach
praktischen
fonds
Bull.
Stratigraphy
de
der of
Principles
Sandes
Surv.,
des
d'analyseGeol.
Lehrbuch
Grabau,
Principles
W.
U.S.
A. Prdcis 1875.
for
byKeilhack,
Beseichnung
Grabau,
Diller,
W.
Thoulet, S.
J.
Quoted
Konrad
J. A. Orth,
Volume
* t$ |
551,
P.
385
recognizes this difficulty and the grade terms here defined are
applicable strictly and without modification to but few natural
sediments. They are proposed as the foundation of, and in the
course of development of, the several class terms and adjectives
proposed in the last part of this paper. Photographs of grade
aggregatesfrom64 mm. to 3z mm. are shown in the accompanying
Figures 2 and 3.
386
CHESTER K. WENTWORTH
64-32 mm
16-8 mm
32-16 mm
Pebble gravel
Natural Size
FIG. 2
388
CHESTER K. WENTWORTH
sand
mm
mm
I-3
Coarse
Silt
g-A
sand
mm
mm
2-I
coarse
sand
fine
l-iA
Very
Very
Size 3
FIG.
Natural
mm
grave
4-2
mm sand
4-B
Fine
Granule
sand
mm gravel
mm
8-4
.1
Pebble
Medium
389
The grade terms defined above for aggregates and for rocks are
applicable, as the writer has pointed out in another part of this
of sedimentary
schemes
for
Clay
CHESTER K. WENTWORTH
39
Specifications by Grade
Gravel> 80%
Gravel > sand > o10%
Sand > gravel > 10%
Gravel
Others< 10%
Others< 10%
Sandy gravel
Gravelly sand
Others< Io%
Silty sand
Others< o10%
Others< o10%
Sandysilt
Silt
Clayeysilt
Others< o10%
Silty clay
Sand> 80%
Clay> 80%
Sand
Clay
391
ANALYSES
APPROPRIATE
Diameter in Millimeters
No. 75t
Gravel t
.3
.2
5.6
36.8
.7
.3
2.6
.2
37.4
1.2
16-8
3.3
8-4
65 9
4-2
2-I
1-1/2
1/2-1/4
1/4-1/8
26.0
3.0
No. 16
Sand
No. 9
No. 18
Sandy Gravel Gravelly Sand
.2
14.0
13.2
20.0
14.4
II.4
18.2
64-3 2
32-16
1/8-1/16
BY J. A. UDDEN*
TO THE CLASSIFICATION
1/I6-1/32
No. 68
Silty Sand
0.I
7.4
3.6
I.7
24.4
7.2
49.2
8.3
14.8
I.0
.4
.2
JrI
1/32-1/64
.2
.3
7.2
17.9
48.7
8.4
13.2
3.2
1/64-1/128
.7
1/128-1/256
.I
Diameter in Millimeters
2-I
1-1/2
I/2-1/4
1/4-1/8
1/8-1/10
1/16-1/32
I/32-1/64
1/64-1/128
I/I28-1/256
1/256-1/512
1/512-1/1024.
I/I024-I/204
No. 70
Sandy Silt
No. 129
Silt
No. 131
Clayey Silt
No. Io
Silty Clay
.2
-9
II.9
tr.
tr.
tr.
3-1
tr.
tr.
.4
5.3
2.3
2.0
9.8
28.7
40.6
5-9
1.5
.2
12.4
37. 2
24.6
9.6
3.5
.9
.2
13.2
28.2
31.1
II.7
5.6
13.2
26.4
19.8
6.4
17.8
2.4
10.0
2.3
.8
392
CHESTERK. WENTWORTH