Clustering of cumulative grainsize distribution curves for shallow-marine samples with software program CLARAFootnote*

*Figures 10 – 12 [indicated by an asterisk (*) in the text and listed at the end of the paper] are Supplementary Papers; copies may be obtained from the Geological Society of Australia's website (www.gsa.org.au) or from the National Library of Australia's Pandora archive (http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-25194).

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