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LOGNORMAL distributions are commonly encountered in Nature1 and are applicable to a wide range of variables. The distribution was early used to describe the size distribution characteristics of detrital sediments2, the variable in these instances being either a diameter determined by screening or direct microscopic measurement, or some function of shape, weight and projection area operative in methods utilizing settling velocities. Departures from lognormality are commonly met with, and recently an attempt has been made to extract from polymodal distributions lognormal components which are meaningful in terms of natural processes3.
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FULLER, A., LLOYD, A. Lognormal Components in Natural Polymineralic Associations. Nature 201, 1312 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2011312a0
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