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Introduction
In India, coastal regions are increasingly being used
for placer sand mining, recreation, aquaculture, coral
mining, and fishing. Earlier workers1-4 attempted the
application of light mineral analysis in provenance
studies. Anirudhan5 illustrated the petrography of light
detrital minerals of Bharathapuzha to decipher the
depositional history. Muthukrishnan6 studied light
minerals from the Gadilam River in order to understand
the maturity of quartz, orthoclase and microcline. The
studies of light minerals from Vaippar and Gadilam
River sediments concluded that they are influenced the
continental block provenances7-8. The introduction of the
Coastal Regulation Act and the Offshore Mining Bill for
the exploitation of mineral deposits off the Indian coast
has highlighted the importance of documenting coastal
processes and sediment characteristics. The increasing
demand for exploring and exploiting non-living coastal
resources like placer deposits emphasises the need to
compile more extensive inventories of these deposits
that include sediment systematics such as grain size.
Present study consists he documentation and the
characteristics of grain size and mineral content from the
Cuddalore coast to characterize the sediment source.
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Mean
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
0.6
0.94
1.64
1.16
1.25
1.19
1.09
1.78
1.03
1.26
1.76
1.16
1.44
0.79
0.72
0.84
1.07
1.06
0.18
0.49
0.13
0.1
0.18
0.14
0.13
0.2
0.14
0.08
0.22
0.14
0.45
0.15
0.13
0.3
0.15
0.36
1.15
1.38
0.74
1.29
1.01
1.12
1.31
1.02
1.3
0.87
1.03
1.18
1.3
0.73
1.12
1.13
1.13
2.52
Mean
Coarse sand
Coarse sand
Medium sand
Medium sand
Medium sand
Medium sand
Medium sand
Medium sand
Medium sand
Medium sand
Medium sand
Medium sand
Medium sand
Coarse sand
Coarse sand
Coarse sand
Medium sand
Medium sand
Standard deviation
Skewness
Well sorted
Fine skewed
Moderately Well sorted Very fine skewed
Poorly sorted
Fine skewed
Moderately sorted
Fine skewed
Fine skewed
Moderately Well sorted
Fine skewed
Moderately Well sorted
Fine skewed
Moderately Well sorted
Moderately sorted
Fine skewed
Fine skewed
Moderately Well sorted
Fine skewed
Moderately Well sorted
Poorly sorted
Fine skewed
Fine skewed
Moderately Well sorted
Moderately Well sorted Very fine skewed
Moderately Well sorted
Fine skewed
Well sorted
Fine skewed
Well sorted
Fine skewed
Well sorted
Fine skewed
Moderately sorted
Very fine skewed
Kurtosis
Leptokurtic
Leptokurtic
Platykurtic
Leptokurtic
Mesokurtic
Leptokurtic
Leptokurtic
Mesokurtic
Leptokurtic
Platykurtic
Mesokurtic
Leptokurtic
Leptokurtic
Platykurtic
Leptokurtic
Leptokurtic
Leptokurtic
Very
Leptokurtic
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Kurtosis
Y1
Y2
Y3
Y1
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Y2
Y3
1
1.95
49.70
-2.75
Beach
Beach
Shallow marine
2
1.04
68.99
-4.71
Beach
Shallow agitated
Shallow marine
3
2.43
152.76
-14.93
Beach
Shallow agitated
Fluvial
4
3.15
105.66
-8.33
Beach
Shallow agitated
Fluvial
5
0.12
73.71
-4.76
Beach
Shallow agitated
Shallow marine
6
-0.08
58.97
-2.57
Beach
Beach
Shallow marine
7
1.16
65.76
-3.20
Beach
Shallow agitated
Shallow marine
8
-1.67
84.42
-4.961
Beach
Shallow agitated
Shallow marine
9
1.08
60.48
-2.69
Beach
Beach
Shallow marine
10
-0.34
65.89
-3.80
Beach
Shallow agitated
Shallow marine
11
1.62
142.08
-12.72
Beach
Shallow agitated
Fluvial
12
0.20
59.61
-2.57
Beach
Beach
Shallow marine
13
-0.94
73.90
-4.28
Beach
Shallow agitated
Shallow marine
14
0.47
52.24
-3.62
Beach
Beach
Shallow marine
15
1.50
49.48
-2.39
Beach
Beach
Shallow marine
16
0.55
51.08
-2.71
Beach
Beach
Shallow marine
17
0.24
55.51
-2.39
Beach
Beach
Shallow marine
18
5.50
108.70
-6.53
Beach
Shallow agitated
Shallow marine
Note: This table indicates all the samples in beach sediments and the depositional environment is mostly shallow marine
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Pyroxene, Amphibole
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Fig 16Different type of heavy minerals in Cuddalore estuaries: (a) Pyroxene ,Amphibole, Kyanite (Ponnaiyar estuary), (b) Pyroxene
,Amphibole, Hypersthene (Ponnaiyar estuary),(c) Pyroxene ,Amphibole, Ilemnite (Gadilam estuary), (d) Pyroxene ,Amphibole, Laterite
(Uppanar estuary), (e) Pyroxene, Amphibole, Sillimanite (Vellar estuary), (f) Pyroxene ,Amphibole, Sillimanite (Coleroon estuary).
Laterite
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