Tectonic-geochemical exploration modeling for characterizing geo-anomalies in southeastern Yunnan district, China

Journal of Geochemical Exploration

Volumn 122, Issue , 2012, Pages 71-80

  Wang, Wenlei ^a   Zhao, Jie ^a   Cheng, Qiuming ^a,b   Liu, Jiangtao ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Fault density; Fractal; Geo information integration; PCA; Singularity

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATION MODEL; FAULT DENSITY; FAULT SYSTEM; FRACTURE ZONE; GEO-INFORMATION; GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALY; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; HYDROTHERMAL MINERALIZATION; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; ORE-FORMING ELEMENTS; PCA; SINGULARITY; SINGULARITY THEORY; SPATIAL SCALE; STUDY AREAS;

FRACTALS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERAL RESOURCES; MINERALOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

FAULTING;

FAULT; FRACTURE ZONE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALIZATION; MODELING; ORE DEPOSIT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 84867397017     PISSN: 03756742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2012.06.017     Document Type: Article

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