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By M. F. Dvali, D. S. Korzhinskii, Yu. V. Linnik, M. A. Romanova, O. V. Sarmanov (auth.), M. A. Romanova, O. V. Sarmanov (eds.)

Collections of this kind are a standard e-book characteristic of the Laboratory of Mathemati­ cal Geology of the Order of Lenin V. A. Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sci­ ences of the USSR. sooner or later it truly is meant that additional collections and monographs replicate­ ing the job of the Laboratory be issued. during this current assortment, as well as employees of the Laboratory of Mathematical Geology, experts of either Russia and lots of overseas nations participated. This has enable­ ted us to exhibit the final point of mathematization of geology in 1966. with a view to increase the general view, the editors have incorporated a piece "Chronicle and Bibliography" within which in­ formation is given at the most crucial activities on the subject of mathematization of geology occurring in 1965 and the 1st half 1966, and which incorporates a bibliography on two-dimensional regressions having nice useful worth in geology yet little recognized to us within the Soviet Union.

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Inman [1949) noted a change downstream from positive to negative skewness in the Mississippi River sands. The positive skewness of river sands is consistent with the proposed model but it is to be expected that some river sediments may show instead a change from strong negative to slight negative skewness, without passing through a symmetrical stage. 18 mm is correctly explained by Inman [1949) and cannot be predicted from this model. " Exactly such a change takes place at low values of friction (shear) velocity and at average grain sizes which are small enough to permit the development of a laminar boundary layer at the bed of the stream.

The size of the particles is determined by the formula (24) then zn at a large n is asymptotically lognormal (Editor's footnote). LOG-NORMAL FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION IN SEDIMENTS 41 1. The number of events will not be as large as in beach transport. It should, therefore, be easier to detect a downstream modification of the size distribution. The rate of convergence of the distribution to log-normal is most rapid at first and proceeds more slowly after the number of events is already large. In wave action, the number of events becomes large very rapidly, so that approximately log-normal distributions should be found even very close to the sediment source.

1957). 42 GEOLOGIC HYPOTHESES AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS Bennett, J. , "Broken coal," J. Inst. Fuel, Vol. 10, pp. 22-39 (1936). , Mathematical Methods of Statistics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. , 575 pp. (1946). , "The mathematical description of certain breakage mechanisms leading to the logarithmico-normal distri bUtion, n J. , Vol. 244, pp. 471-477 (1947). Friedman, G. , "On sorting, sorting coefficients, and the log-normality of the grain-size distribution of sandstones," J.

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