Calibration of XRF core scanners for quantitative geochemical logging of sediment cores: Theory and application

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 423-438

  Weltje, Gert Jan ^a   Tjallingii, Rik ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

bulk chemistry; calibration; compositional data; core scanner; palaeoceanography; statistics; XRF

Indexed keywords

BULK CHEMISTRY; CALIBRATION EQUATIONS; CALIBRATION MODELS; CALIBRATION SPECIMENS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL-; COMPOSITIONAL DATA; CORE SCANNER; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSES; GOODNESS-OF-FIT STATISTICS; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; IN-HOMOGENEITY; INSTRUMENT CALIBRATIONS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MEASUREMENT GEOMETRY; NON LINEARITIES; ON-LINE ANALYSIS; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PORE WATERS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENTS; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATION; SEDIMENT COMPOSITION; SEDIMENT CORES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; UNBIASED ESTIMATES; XRF;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MODAL ANALYSIS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL LOGGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SCANNING; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER CONTENT;

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; SPECTROMETRY; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 52949131891     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.054     Document Type: Article

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