gravelometer
English
Etymology
gravel + -meter
Noun
gravelometer (plural gravelometers)
- A device that measures the resistance to damage of a surface caused by flying grit and gravel etc.
- 2015 November 6, “How Big of an Effect Do Small Dams Have? Using Geomorphological Footprints to Quantify Spatial Impact of Low-Head Dams and Identify Patterns of Across-Dam Variation”, in PLOS ONE, DOI: :
- All individual samplers selected similar-sized substrates (+/- one size class of the gravelometer) at three predetermined locations along a transect (location 1 (chi-sq = 0.72, df = 3, P = 0.87), location 2 (chi-sq = 1.31, df = 3, P = 0.73), location 3 (chi-sq = 7.25, df = 3, P = 0.06); Kruskal-Wallis test, α = 0.016 with Bonferroni correction; Fig 3A ).
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