Taklimakan Desert, in the northwest China, is one of the main sources of dust storms in the
world. Frequent dust storms have seriously affected the ecological environment of …

The purpose of this study is to differentiate and characterise contouritic sands in two different
locations with variable sediment compositions (siliciclastic and bioclastic) based on a …

Abstract Interpretation of unconsolidated Quaternary sedimentary core is difficult if key
diagnostic features are obscured or not present, therefore traditional facies analysis is …

To identify characteristics of aeolian activity and the aeolian environment in China's eastern
desert region, this study collected surface sediment samples from the main desert and sandy …

Southwest Bangladesh, located on the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, is experiencing
the impacts of sea level rise (SLR) due to processes at both the local and global scale. In …

Traditional approaches to fluvial sedimentary analysis often face challenges in deciphering
complex, multivariate datasets. This study combines compositional data analysis (CoDA) …

The commonly used grain size analysis technique which applies moments (sorting,
skewness and kurtosis) is less useful in the case of sediments with bimodal size …

Magnetite and hematite grains from the 0.25–0.5 mm and 0.5–2.0 mm ferromagnetic
fractions of ten till samples collected up-ice, overlying and down-ice of the Kiggavik U …

Sediment constitutes the fundamental basis for forming and evolving aeolian
geomorphology. The characteristics of sediment particle size offer insights into the …

This paper is part of a special issue of Applied Geochemistry focusing on reliable
applications of compositional multivariate statistical methods. This study outlines the …