MinSORTING: An Excel® worksheet for modelling mineral grain-size distribution in sediments, with application to detrital geochronology and provenance studies

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 59, Issue , 2013, Pages 90-97

  Resentini, Alberto ^a   Malusà, Marco G ^a   Garzanti, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Detrital geochronology; Heavy minerals; Mineral separation; Provenance analysis; Settling equivalence; Size density sorting

Indexed keywords

HEAVY MINERALS; MINERAL SEPARATION; PROVENANCE ANALYSIS; SETTLING EQUIVALENCE; SIZE-DENSITY SORTING;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MINERALS;

SEDIMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MINERALOGY; MODELING; PARTICLE SIZE; PROVENANCE; RESEARCH WORK; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84880362108     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2013.05.015     Document Type: Article

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