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In the previous chapters, we have been concerned with determining grain size, mean grain size or modal grain size. We looked at grain size distributions, number histograms, and volume weighted histograms. The idea was that the grain size distributions were created by physical processes that select or favor one typical grain size. As a consequence, the analytical effort went into determining that particular grain size as accurately as possible.
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Heilbronner, R., Barrett, S. (2014). Fractal Grain Size Distributions. In: Image Analysis in Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10343-8_13
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