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The measured roundness and sphericity' of originally angular rock fragments derived from a rhyolite cliff on Lake Superior show a progressive increase with linear distance of travel as beach pebbles. The general applicability of Krumbein's equation of rounding to the rounding of these pebbles is tested by a graphical method.
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