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Clastic rockGeologyScale (ratio)Class (philosophy)GeochemistrySedimentary rockCartographyEpistemologyGeographyPhilosophy
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- 1922
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- article
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 377-392
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- 6394
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Chester K. Wentworth
(1922).
A Scale of Grade and Class Terms for Clastic Sediments.
The Journal of Geology
, 30
(5)
, 377-392.
https://doi.org/10.1086/622910
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- 10.1086/622910