ABSTRACT: Textural variation in subenvironment of the shallow water wave zone, Kouchibouguac, New Brunswick

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Textural analysis of sands from the morphodynamic environments of a tidal, shallow-water, wave environment in Kouchibouguac Bay, New Brunswick, reveals sediment populations that are statistically unique to each zone under low wave energy conditions. Measures of average size, sorting, and skewness of sediment size distributions vary according to location in four sub-environments (offshore bar, trough, breaker zone, and swash zone). Phi kurtosis is environmentally sensitive in this area. Classification into environmental groupings is good. The relative importance of individual size-frequency statistics in the discrimination of adjacent environments is a result of the effects of changing morphology and wave-current conditions on the selective transport of sediments

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