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Ingersoll, R.V., Bulard, T.F., Ford, R.L., Grimn, J.P., Pickle, J.P., Sares, S.W., 1984, "The effect of grain size on detrital modes: a test of the Gazzi-Dickinson Point
Counting method": Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 54,
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sand, when point counted with these two methods would yield drastically different results. A QFR-style count would be rich in rock fragments, whereas a Gazzi-Dickinson point count would show the sand rich in
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Dickinson, W.R., 1985, "Interpreting provenance relation from detrital modes of sandstones", in Zuffa, G.G. (ed.), Provenance of
Arenites: NATO ASI Series, C 148, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht,
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Graham, S.A., Dickinson, W.R., and
Ingersoll, R.V., 1975, "Himalayan-Bengal Model for Flysch Dispersal in Appalachian-Ouachita system", Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 86, pp. 273–286.
179:. Proponents of the Indiana University method would say that information is lost by not counting rock fragments. Proponents of Gazzi-Dickinson point counting would say that small changes in
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A sand grain that could be used for the Gazzi-Dickinson method. Scale box in millimeters, plane-polarized light on top, cross-polarized light on bottom. Landing on the large
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Gazzi, P., 1966, "Le
Arenarie del Flysch Sopracretaceo dell'Appennino Modenese: Correlazioni con il Flysch di Monghidoro". Mineralogica e Petrografica Acta 12:69 97.
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Dickinson, W.R., Suczek, C.A., 1979, "Plate tectonics and sandstone compositions": American
Association of Petroleum Geologist, 63, 2164–2182.
35:-rich groundmass surrounding the grain would count as a volcanic lithic fragment. It would count as a volcanic rock fragment in the
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Dickinson, W.R., 1970, 2Interpreting detrital modes of graywacke and arkose": Journal of
Sedimentary Petrology, v. 40, p. 695–707.
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