On the visualisation of detrital age distributions

Chemical Geology

Volumn 312-313, Issue , 2012, Pages 190-194

  Vermeesch, Pieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Geochronology; Provenance; Statistics

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL UNCERTAINTY; DATA QUANTITY; DENSITY ESTIMATION; DETRITAL ZIRCON; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; LA-ICP-MS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY PROVENANCE; SINGLE GRAINS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STANDARD STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; THEORETICAL BASIS; U-PB DATING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LEAD; SILICATE MINERALS; STATISTICS; VISUALIZATION;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84861112092     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.04.021     Document Type: Article

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