Data Conditioning of Environmental Geochemical Data. Quality Control Procedures Used in the British Geological Survey's Regional Geochemical Mapping Project.

Environmental Geochemistry: Site Characterization, Data Analysis and Case Histories

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 93-118

  Johnson, Christopher C ^a   Ander, Louise E ^a   Lister, Robert T ^a   Flight, Deirdre M A ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53159-9.00005-X     Document Type: Chapter

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