Mapping of district-scale potential targets using fractal models

Journal of Geochemical Exploration

Volumn 122, Issue , 2012, Pages 34-46

  Wang, Gongwen ^a   Carranza, Emmanuel John M ^b   Zuo, Renguang ^a,c   Hao, Yinglong ^a   Du, Yangsong ^a   Pang, Zhenshan ^d   Sun, Yue ^a   Qu, Jianan ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d CHINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (China)

Author keywords

Box counting dimension; Fractal; Hurst exponent; Mineral exploration; Porphyry Cu deposit; Power law frequency

Indexed keywords

BOX-COUNTING; BOX-COUNTING DIMENSION; CALCULATED VALUES; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COPPER TARGET; EXPLORATION TARGETS; FAULT STRUCTURE; FRACTAL MODEL; FREQUENCY MODELS; GEOCHEMICAL DATASETS; GEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HURST EXPONENTS; MONOFRACTAL; ORE-FORMING; OREBODIES; POTENTIAL TARGETS; POWER-LAW; SELF-SIMILARITIES; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

COPPER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; COPPER DEPOSITS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS; MINERAL EXPLORATION;

DEPOSITS;

BOREHOLE; COPPER; COUNTRY ROCK; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MAPPING; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALIZATION; ORE BODY; ORE DEPOSIT; PORPHYRY;

CHINA; PULANG; YUNNAN;

EID: 84867405464     PISSN: 03756742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2012.06.013     Document Type: Article

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