Discovering geochemical patterns using self-organizing neural networks: A new perspective for sedimentary provenance analysis

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 165, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 175-191

  Lacassie, Juan Pablo ^a   Roser, Barry ^a   Ruiz Del Solar, Javier ^b   Hervé, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Neural networks; Sandstone; Sedimentary provenance; Unsupervised learning; Visual analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; GEOCHEMISTRY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT;

EID: 1542319212     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2003.12.001     Document Type: Article

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