Geochemical mapping: Technique or art?

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 359-370

  Reimann, Clemens ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Boxplot; Class selection; Geochemical map; Kriging; Moving median; Percentiles; Scale

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY;

BOXPLOT; CLASS SELECTIONS; KRIGING; MOVING MEDIAN; PERCENTILES; SCALE;

MAPPING;

GEOCHEMISTRY; KRIGING; MAPPING METHOD;

EID: 27744533248     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/03-051     Document Type: Article

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