Geochemical discrimination diagrams: A simple way of replacing eye-fitted field boundaries with probability based classifier surfaces

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 335-346

  Agrawal, Salil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

Geochemical discrimination; I and S type granitoids; Igneous rocks; Rapakivi and Ring complex granites; Tectonic classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS ROCK;

EID: 0033490411     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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