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maturity index

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maturity index [mə′chu̇r·əd·ē ‚in‚deks]
(geology)
A measure of the progress of a clastic sediment in the direction of chemical or mineralogic stability; for example, a high ratio of quartz + cherts to feldspar + rock fragments indicates a highly mature sediment.
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However, not in all samples in the recovery stage are the gonads visible because they have been completely absorbed and therefore it is only possible to determine anatomically the sex of the animals by the presence or absence of a penis Mean Maturity Index Grant and Tyler (1983) proposed using the term "maturity index" for examinations of gonad histological sections and restricting the use of "gonad index" to the quantitative analysis of relative gonad weight or size.
Reproductive cycle of the purple snail Plicopurpura pansa (Gould ... by Garcia-Dominguez, Federico A. / Journal of Shellfish Research
A maturity index (MI) was calculated as the ratio of the combined testes weight by the combined testes length ([SIGMA]W/[SIGMA]L).
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The output includes the sugar content index, firmness, size index, stiffness index and a maturity index based on the internal color.
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