“…Less consideration has been given to grain-size distributions of sediments transported or settled in glacial meltwater streams (Rainwater and Guy, 1961;Ziegler, 1974;Bogen, 1979Bogen, , 1980Fenn and Gomez, 1989), whereas several investigations of this subject have been carried out in non-glaciated areas (Folk and Ward, 1957;Bagnold, 1968;Visher, 1969;Sengupta, 1975;Middleton, 1976;Walling and Moorehead, 1987) .…”