Exploring the effects of cell size in geochemical mapping

Journal of Geochemical Exploration

Volumn 112, Issue , 2012, Pages 357-367

  Zuo, Renguang ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental assessments; Geochemical exploration; Inverse distance weighted method; Multifractal

Indexed keywords

CELL SIZE; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FRACTAL MODEL; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALY; GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION; GEOCHEMICAL MAPPING; GEOCHEMICAL PATTERNS; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTED; MAXIMUM VALUES; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MINIMUM VALUE; MULTIFRACTAL; MULTIFRACTAL MODELS; MULTIFRACTAL PARAMETERS; ORE-FORMING ELEMENTS; RASTER MAP; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL TEXTURE; STANDARD DEVIATION; STREAM SEDIMENTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CYTOLOGY; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; FRACTALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TEXTURES;

CELLS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MINERAL EXPLORATION; ORE-FORMING FLUID; SIZE STRUCTURE; THRESHOLD;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 84155163172     PISSN: 03756742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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