Data interpretation in forensic sediment and soil geochemistry

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 325-334

  Morgan, Ruth M ^a   Bull, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AAS Dionex; Canonical discriminant function analysis; Forensic science; Geochemical sediment analysis; ICP MS

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845472905     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920600996248     Document Type: Article

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