The effects of basin asymmetry on sand composition: Examples from Lake Tanganyika, Africa

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• accumulation rate 12%
• Africa 80%
• asymmetry 100%
• basin 53%
• beach 9%
• carbonate 7%
• chemical alteration 16%
• climate 12%
• drainage basin 12%
• effect 25%
• energy 5%
• escarpment 42%
• feldspar 21%
• graben 23%
• lake 62%
• lake basin 25%
• lithology 30%
• metasedimentary rock 13%
• methodology 13%
• overprinting 14%
• quartz 8%
• replacement 9%
• reworking 51%
• river 11%
• rock 11%
• sand 65%
• sandstone 8%
• sediment 11%
• sedimentation rate 12%
• shallow water 9%
• statistical analysis 9%
• subsidence 10%
• substrate 8%
• tectonics 7%
• trend 5%
• tropical climate 14%
• weathering 9%