Sedimentary chemofacies characterization by means of multivariate analysis

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 228, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 218-228

  Montero Serrano, Jean Carlos ^a,b   Palarea Albaladejo, Javier ^c   Martín Fernández, Josep A ^d   Martínez Santana, Manuel ^a   Gutiérrez Martín, José Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemostratigraphy; Compositional data; Constrained cluster; Geochemistry; Log ratio transformation; Robust statistics

Indexed keywords

CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; FACIES; MIOCENE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OLIGOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

FALCON; VENEZUELA;

FALCONIDAE;

EID: 77954214922     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.04.013     Document Type: Article

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