Relationships between palaeogeography and opal occurrence in Australia: A data-mining approach

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 76-82

  Landgrebe, T C W ^a   Merdith, A ^a   Dutkiewicz, A ^a   Muller R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Association rules; Data mining; Great Artesian Basin; Opal; Palaeogeography; Spatio temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTESIAN; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; OPAL; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

ASSOCIATION RULES; DEPOSITION; HYDROGEOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

DATA MINING;

CRETACEOUS; DATA MINING; DATA SET; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; MAP; OPAL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN;

EID: 84876302712     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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