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A STUDY ON THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SEDIMENT AT SETIU<br />

WETLAND<br />

MD HASIM RABBI<br />

SUPERVISOR: DR. NOR BAKHIAH BAHARIM<br />

Bachelor of Science (Marine Science)<br />

SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES<br />

UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU<br />

Particle size characterizations of lagoon and river sediments along the Setiu wetland<br />

was carried out in the present study. The main objective of this study is to identify the<br />

characteristics of sediment and how these sediments deposited to the sedimentation<br />

environment. Dry and wet sieving methods were used to identify the grain size of the<br />

sediment samples. Grain size characterists such as mean, sorting, skewness and<br />

kurtosis were estimated by using an updated version of GRADISTAT programme.<br />

These characteristics has been described more on the results part. Average sediment<br />

find out as coarse to fine sands with moderately sorted and skewed positively. The<br />

study depicts that sedimentation environment is very dynamic whereby river current<br />

and anthropogenic factor influenced along the study area. It can be concluded that<br />

grain size of the sediment regulates the sedimentation environment at Setiu wetland.<br />

1873 | UMT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY 2018

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