Tectonic discrimination diagrams revisited

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Vermeesch, Pieter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Basalt; Classification; Discriminant analysis; Discrimination diagrams; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644981637     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GC001092     Document Type: Article

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