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