Some basic concepts of compositional geometry

Mathematical Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 673-680

  Tolosana Delgado, Raimon ^a   Otero, N ^b   Pawlowsky Glahn, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Closed data; Compositions; Geochemistry; Spurious correlation; Ternary diagram

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CORRELATION METHODS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMETRY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORRELATION; GEOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 33646270652     PISSN: 08828121     EISSN: 15738868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-005-7374-8     Document Type: Article

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