Evidence of biogenic alteration in sub-oceanic basalt glass: Complexity image analysis, elemental abundance distributions, and bayesian probabilistic classification

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5555, Issue , 2004, Pages 47-58

  Storrie Lombardi, Michael C ^a   Fisk, Martin R ^b  

^a Kinohi Institute   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Networks; Basalt; Complexity analysis; Electron microprobe; Elemental abundances; Hierarchical Analysis; Microorganisms; Multifactor analysis; ODP; Principal Component Analysis

Indexed keywords

BASALT; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GLASS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROORGANISMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; PETROGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VOLCANOES;

COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROPROBE; ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCE; HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIFACTOR ANALYSIS; ODP;

MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 14944342587     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.563551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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