Weighted sums - Knowledge based empirical indices for use in exploration geochemistry

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 135-141

  Garrett, Robert G ^a   Grunsky, Eric C ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical ratios; Exploration (mineral); Geochemistry; Multivariate statistics

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERAL RESOURCES; MINERALS;

EMPIRICAL INDEX; EMPIRICAL RATIOS; GEOCHEMICAL MODELS; KNOWLEDGE BASED; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHOD; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SIMPLE METHOD;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

EID: 0012573943     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/geochem.1.2.135     Document Type: Article

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