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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WENTWORTH SCALE

After C. K. Wentworth (1891–1969), US geologist.
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PRONUNCIATION OF WENTWORTH SCALE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WENTWORTH SCALE

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Wentworth scale is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WENTWORTH SCALE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Grain size

Particle size, also called grain size, refers to the diameter of individual grains of sediment, or the lithified particles in clastic rocks. The term may also be applied to other granular materials. This is different from the crystallite size, which is the size of a single crystal inside the particles or grains. A single grain can be composed of several crystals. Granular material can range from very small colloidal particles, through clay, silt, sand, and gravel, to boulders.

Definition of Wentworth scale in the English dictionary

The definition of Wentworth scale in the dictionary is a scale for specifying the sizes of sedimentary particles, ranging from clay particles to boulders.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE WENTWORTH SCALE

Beaufort scale
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Synonyms and antonyms of Wentworth scale in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Wentworth scale» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WENTWORTH SCALE

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The translations of Wentworth scale from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Wentworth scale» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

温特沃斯规模
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

escala de Wentworth
570 millions of speakers

English

Wentworth scale
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वेंटवर्थ पैमाने
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

على نطاق و ينتوورث
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шкала Вентворт
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

escala Wentworth
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ওয়েস্টওয়ের্থ স্কেল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

échelle Wentworth
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Translator English - Malay

Skala Wentworth
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wentworth Skala
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ウェントワーススケール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

웬트워스 규모
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wentworth skala
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

quy mô Wentworth
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வென்ட்வொர்த் அளவுகோல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वेटworthवर्थ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Wentworth ölçeği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scala di Wentworth
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

skala Wentworth
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Translator English - Ukrainian

шкала Вентворт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

scară Wentworth
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Translator English - Greek

κλίμακα Wentworth
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Wentworth skaal
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Wentworth skala
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Translator English - Norwegian

Wentworth skala
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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WENTWORTH SCALE»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WENTWORTH SCALE»

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Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
There are variants on this scheme and there are a number of ways of providing subdivisions within these categories, but sedimentologists generally use the Wentworth Scale (in; Q) to define and name terrigenous clastic deposits. Fig. 2.2 The ...
Gary Nichols, 2013
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Encyclopedia of Soil Science
WETTING FRONT Table W2 Wentworth scale F Size (mm) Size class À8 256 1/2 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/256 Boulders À664 Cobbles À24 Pebbles À12 Granules 01 Very coarse sand 1 Coarse sand 2 Medium sand 3 Fine sand 4 Very fine sand 8 Silt ...
Ward Chesworth, 2008
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Compaction of Coarse-Grained Sediments, I
(See, for example, Krumbein and Pettijohn, 1938; Pettijohn, 1957; Krumbein and Sloss, 1963; Griffiths, 1967; and Pettijohn et al., 1972) The Wentworth scale is a geometric scale with each division differing from the previous one by a ratio of ...
G.V. Chilingarian, K.H. Wolf, 1975
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Microfacies of Carbonate Rocks: Analysis, Interpretation and ...
The Udden-Wentworth scale is a geometric scale ex- tending from <1/256 mm to >256 mm. A modification of this scale is the φ-scale which allows grain-size data to be expressed in units of equal value. The φ size is the negative logarithm to ...
Erik Flügel, 2010
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Elements of Marine Ecology
The much-used Wentworth scale of particle sizes (see Table 6.1) is geometric, giving smaller intervals towards the finer end of the range. Using this scale, a pebble is a pebble only if its size lies between 4 and 64 mm diameter. A pebble larger ...
Ronald Victor Tait, Frances Dipper, 1998
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Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology
A common terminology, based on grain size of sediments, is qualita- tively indicated for sedimentary rocks in sedimentology and petrology (Table 5.1). The grain sizes are widely used after Atter- berg and Wentworth scale. The Atterberg scale ...
S. K. Haldar, 2013
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Sediment and Contaminant Transport in Surface Waters
Particle sizes often are classified using the Wentworth scale (Table 2.1). This scale standardizes and quantifies the definitions of terms commonly used to describe sediments (e.g., clay-size, silt, sand). The basic unit of the scale is 1 mm;  ...
Wilbert Lick, 2008
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Sand: The Never-ending Story
The Udden-Wentworth scale defines the terminology and size categories for different grain sizes, from microscopic particles of mud to boulders (the latter being measured directly, not sieved). It clearly averages out sizes for grains that are ...
Michael Welland, 2009
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The Rock Physics Handbook: Tools for Seismic Analysis of ...
5.3 Particle size and sorting Synopsis Particle size Sorting Particle size is one of the most fundamental parameters of elastic rocks. The Udden— Wentworth scale uses a geometric progression of grain diameters in millimeters, dI 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...
Gary Mavko, Tapan Mukerji, Jack Dvorkin, 2009
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Theriosynoecum Wyomingense (Branson, 1935), a Possible Guide ...
The phi scale, which is a logarithmic transformation of the Wentworth scale ( Krumbein, 1934) , is used also for convenience in reporting NONOPAQUE HEAVY MINERALS, BLACK HILLS C7. Black Hills Bighorn Basin, Wyoming Wind River ...
Israel Gregory Sohn, Raymond E Peck, 1963

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WENTWORTH SCALE»

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"Sand" means something different to me than it does to you, probably
Here's an expanded version of the Wentworth (1922) classification scheme ... Look at the Wentworth scale, and you'll note that if MAHLI can see grains in the ... «The Planetary Society, Jan 13»

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