Sand and Gravel - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
For example, in the United Kingdom industry, “sand” refers to (noncohesive) minerals with a mean grain size lying between 0.63 and 5 mm, and “gravel” is reserved for coarser material; in Belgium, the industry considers as gravel the sediment with a mean grain size larger than 4 mm. For comparison, within the scientific literature, the ...