A case study on geochemical anomaly identification through principal components analysis supplementary projection

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-44

  Pereira, Henrique Garcia ^a   Renca, Sara ^b   Saraiva, José ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

ANOMALY SEPARATION METHODOLOGY; GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALY IDENTIFICATION;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ABANDONED MINE; ANOMALY; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 0347928652     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(02)00099-9     Document Type: Article

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