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Textural analysis of surface sediments is very useful tool to understand the complex interaction between terrestrial and marine environment . Total 180 sediment samples (60 samples in each season) have been collected from the lower reach of the Rupnarayan River and sieving technique is used to calculate different size parameters. Approximately, 63.80% of the sediments are very fine sand, 14.76% are fine sand and 21.44% are coarse silt type. Sediments are coarser in monsoon than in pre-monsoon and post-monsoon seasons due to increase of water volume, stream energy and removal of fine sediments in monsoon. In dry season, >60% sediments are moderately to well sorted but in monsoon season 63.85% sediments are poorly to very poorly sorted. Around 55% of the sediments are of fine and very fine skewed type, 33% of samples are near symmetrical and remaining are of coarse skewed type. The coarser sediments are negatively skewed and finer sediments are positively skewed. In monsoon, >60% of the sediments is platykurtic or leptokurtic in nature which indicates the high energy environment in this season. Proportion of sand, silt and clay in sediments ranges between 38–91%, 4–61% and 1–41% respectively. Nearly, 81.33% of the sediments are silty sand, 7.33% are muddy sand and 6% samples are of sandy silt category.
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Kumar Maity, S., Maiti, R. (2018). Analysis of Bed Load Sediment Texture. In: Sedimentation in the Rupnarayan River. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62304-7_6
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