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The axes of more than 40000 pebbles were measured. Sphericity is strongly dependent on lithology and increases with grain size. It increases from the jointed and weathered source rocks towards the river-mouth sediments and decreases along the beach, seen as a whole, that is, the sphericity distribution of the coast returns exactly to its starting pattern or joint block origin. So sphericity fails to be a useful provenance signal.
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Ibbeken, H., Schleyer, R. (1991). Development of Gravel Sphericity. In: Source and Sediment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76165-2_12
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