G2Sd (version 2.1.3)

granstat: Calculates all descriptive statistics

Description

Statistics are calculated using arithmetic and geometric Method of Moments (micrometer) and using logarithmic Folk and Ward (1957) Method (phi scale): mean, standard-deviation, skewness, kurtosis. The mode(s) is(are) determined graphically by the user (with a maximum of 4 modes). The determination of the mode is optional (no determination by default). Several percentiles and common index are calculated: D10, D50, D90, D90/D10, D90-D10, D75/D25, D75-D25, Trask(So) Index, Krumbein(Qd) Index. Physical description of texture, sorting, skewness or kurtosis are provided as such as the sediment name after Folk (1954). Are also included the percentage of particules falling into each predefined size fraction, modified from Blott and Pye (2001) scale, Udden (1914) and Wentworth (1922). granstat is a function which provides all results organized in two ways: a complete matrix (by default) or by separate items.

Usage

granstat(x, web_interface=FALSE, statistic = "all", aggr = TRUE, modes = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A numeric matrix or data frame

web_interface

if TRUE, a simplified interface is displayed from your default web browser

statistic

Statistic used: "arithmetic", "geometric", "folk.ward", "all". If this argument is not used, all statistics are calculated

aggr

If TRUE, a complete matrix is provided. If FALSE, the results are organized in separate items: $stat, $index, $mode, $sedim. If this argument is not used, a complete matrix is provided

modes

If TRUE, the mode must be determinated graphically by the user. If FALSE, the mode is not determinated. If this argument is not used, no determination of the mode is proposed

Value

• A matrix containing
• mean.arith
  the mean of grain-size distribution (arithmetic method of moments)
• sd.arith
  the standard-deviation of grain-size distribution (arithmetic method of moments)
• skewness.arith
  the skewness of grain-size distribution (arithmetic method of moments)
• kurtosis.arith
  the kurtosis of grain-size distribution (arithmetic method of moments)
• mean.geom
  the mean of grain-size distribution (geometric method of moments
• sd.geom
  the standard-deviation of grain-size distribution (geometric method of moments)
• skewness.geom
  the skewness of grain-size distribution (geometric method of moments)
• kurtosis.geom
  the kurtosis of grain-size distribution (geometric method of moments)
• Sediment
  physical description of the sediment, the sorting, the skewness and the kurtosis
• Mean.fw.mm
  the mean of grain-size distribution (logarithmic Folk and Ward method, mm scale)
• Sd.fw.mm
  the standard-deviation of grain-size distribution (logarithmic Folk and Ward method, mm scale)
• Skewness.fw.mm
  the skewness of grain-size distribution (logarithmic Folk and Ward method, mm scale)
• Kurtosis.fw.mm
  the kurtosis of grain-size distribution (logarithmic Folk and Ward method, mm scale)
• Mean.fw.phi
  the mean of grain-size distribution (logarithmic Folk and Ward method, phi scale)
• Sd.fw.phi
  the standard-deviation of grain-size distribution (logarithmic Folk and Ward method, phi scale)
• Skewness.fw.phi
  the skewness of grain-size distribution (logarithmic Folk and Ward method, phi scale)
• Kurtosis.fw.phi
  the kurtosis of grain-size distribution (logarithmic Folk and Ward method, phi scale)
• Mode
  the mode (mm scale), graphically defined by the user
• D10(mm)
  the 10th percentile
• D50(mm)
  the median
• D90(mm)
  the 90th percentile
• D90/D10
  ratio of the 90th percentile and the 10th percentile
• D90-D10
  difference between the the 90th percentile and the 10th percentile
• D75/D25
  ratio of the 75th percentile and the 25th percentile
• D75-D25
  difference between the the 75th percentile and the 25th percentile
• Trask(So)
  the Trask Index (So) defined as D25/D75 (mm scale)
• Krumbein(Qd)
  the Krumbein Index (Qd) defined as (D25-D75)/2 (phi scale)
• Texture
  physical description of the texture of the sediment
• Boulder
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Boulder class (upper to 63 mm)
• Gravel
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Gravel class (between 2 mm and 63 mm)
• Sand
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Sand class (between 63 micrometer and 2 mm)
• Mud
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Mud class (down to 63 micrometer)
• Boulder
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Boulder class (upper to 63 mm)
• vcgravel
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Very Coarse Gravel class (between 31.5 mm and 63 mm)
• cgravel
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Coarse Gravel class (between 16 mm and 31.5 mm)
• mgravel
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Medium Gravel class (between 8 mm and 16 mm)
• fgravel
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Fine Gravel class (between 4 mm and 8 mm)
• vfgravel
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Very Fine Gravel class (between 2 mm and 4 mm)
• vcsand
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Very Coarse Sand class (between 1 mm and 2 mm)
• csand
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Coarse Sand class (between 500 micrometer and 1 mm)
• msand
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Medium Sand class (between 250 micrometer and 500 micrometer)
• fsand
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Fine Sand class (between 125 micrometer and 250 micrometer)
• vfsand
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Very Fine Sand class (between 63 micrometer and 125 micrometer)
• vcsilt
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Very Coarse Silt class (between 40 micrometer and 63 micrometer)
• silt
  percentage of sediment of the grain-size distribution retained in the Silt class (lower than 40 micrometer)

encoding

UTF8

Details

For the determination of the mode (modes=TRUE). All the samples are successively shown with a graph. The user can choose graphically the mode (1 in 4 maximum) by a click on the graph. If 4 modes are chosen, the following graph appears automatically. If 1, 2 or 3 modes are chosen, the user has to use the function stop locator in the graphic window. If the weight of sediment retained on the broadest sieve exceeds 5 percent of the total mass of the sample, the Folk and Ward statistics cannot be computed.

References

Blott, S., Pye, K. 2001. Gradistat: grain size distribution and statistics package for the analysis of unconsolidated sediment. Earth, Surface Processes and Landforms 26, 1237-1248 Folk, R.L. 1954. The distinction between grain size and mineral composition in sedimentary-rock nomenclature. Journal of Geology 62, 344-359 Folk, R.L., Ward, W.C. 1957. Brazos River bar: a study in the significance of grain size parameters. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 27, 3-26 Krumbein, W.C., Pettijohn, F.J. 1938. Manual of Sedimentary Petrography. Appleton-Century-Crofts, New-York Udden, J.A. 1914. Mechanical composition of clastic sediments. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 25, 655-744 Wentworth, C.K. 1922. A scale of grade and class terms for clastic sediments. Journal of Geology 30, 377-392

Examples

#granulo is the data set
data(granulo)
granstat(granulo)
granstat(granulo,statistic="all",aggr=TRUE,modes=FALSE)
granstat(granulo,statistic="folk.ward",aggr=FALSE,modes=TRUE)

#to display the simplified interface
#granstat(web_interface=TRUE)