Research Article
Continental Shelf Sediments of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
Table 1
Descriptive terminology modified from Krumbein and Pettijohn [
19].
| Sorting | Skewness | Kurtosis |
| Very well sorted | <0.35 | Very fine skewed | >+1.30 | Very platykurtic | <1.70 | Well sorted | 0.35–0.50 | Fine skewed | +0.43 to +1.30 | Platykurtic | 1.70–2.55 | Moderately well sorted | 0.50–0.70 | Symmetrical | −0.43 to +0.43 | Mesokurtic | 2.55–3.70 | Moderately sorted | 0.70–1.00 | Coarse skewed | −0.43 to −1.30 | Leptokurtic | 3.70–7.40 | Poorly sorted | 1.00–2.00 | Very coarse skewed | <−1.30 | Very leptokurtic | >7.40 | Very poorly sorted | 2.00–4.00 | | | | | Extremely poorly sorted | >4.00 | | | | |
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