%0 Journal Article
%T Distribuci車n de par芍metros texturales de los sedimentos superficiales en la Bah赤a de Chetumal: Implicaciones en la inferencia de transporte
%A S芍nchez
%A Alberto
%A 芍lvarez-Legorreta
%A Teresa
%A S芍enz-Morales
%A Ricardo
%A Ortiz-Hern芍ndez
%A Ma. Concepci車n
%A L車pez-Ortiz
%A B. Estela
%A Agu赤ˋiga
%A Sergio
%J Revista mexicana de ciencias geol車gicas
%D 2008
%I Universidad Nacional Aut車noma de M谷xico
%X the grain-size trend analysis (grain size, sorting and asymmetry) was determined from 43 stations to identify the path of sediment transport in the chetumal bay, quintana roo. the analysis of principal components and grain size trend analysis were applied to sediment textural parameters. it was established that better sorted sedimentary material is associated with stations with fine grain-size and vice versa. vectors transport suggests a net transport of sediment in the direction s-se and s-sw (for the sampling period), which is consistent with the direction of the surface and deep currents in the chetumal bay. the preferential deposition of fine and well-sorted material in the central part of the bay has excellent correlation with the contents of anthropogenic pollutants found in other studies.
%K sediment transport
%K grain size trend analysis
%K polluting agents
%K bay of chetumal
%K mexico.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1026-87742008000300011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en