Grain Size and Chemical Composition of Sediments to Determine the Governing Geochemical Processes in Fluvial Environments

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dc.contributor.author Young, Sansfica M.
dc.date.accessioned 2021-10-04T01:45:59Z
dc.date.available 2021-10-04T01:45:59Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Young, Sansfica M.(2019). Grain Size and Chemical Composition of Sediments to Determine the Governing Geochemical Processes in Fluvial Environments, Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment, 9(02), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.31357/jtfe.v9i2.4463 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://archive.cmb.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/70130/6187
dc.description.abstract The environmental impact on the river system and the bay or a tidal flat area is of significance since these environments act as sinks of pollutants. The river system gradually gathers the material that flows along the river and settles it at the downstream area. The geochemistry of sediments of the rivers and the Bay or tidal area are signatures of the mass transfer process that occur in fluvial environments. Thus, the processes such as provenance, maturity of sediments, weathering, climatic implications, sedimentary processes, heavy mineral concentrations, sorting and mixing effect, grain size variation, transport and downstream accumulation and effect of tributaries can be determined using geochemistry. The major oxides and trace element concentration of the sediments of the river and the Bay or Tidal area is thus very important to determine the fluvial processes. Comparison of two different fluvial environments with different climatic conditions and geology where one consists of the river with a Bay in Sri Lanka and the other consisting of a river with a tidal flat in Japan is thus conceded. The environmental assessment using elements of sediments in such environments have been effective due to the possibility of being able to identify the fluvial processes that are affected by the river and Bay or tidal sediments in two different systems. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject Fluvial environment en_US
dc.subject geochemistry en_US
dc.subject sediment en_US
dc.subject major oxides en_US
dc.subject trace elements en_US
dc.title Grain Size and Chemical Composition of Sediments to Determine the Governing Geochemical Processes in Fluvial Environments en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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