Rock-type identification in a simulated underground environment using second-derivative thermal infrared reflectance spectra

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 1318-1326

  Feng, Jilu ^a   Rivard, Benoit ^a   Gallie, E Ann ^b   Sanchez Arofeifa, Arturo ^a   Francis, Helen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Inco Limited ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Rock cores; Spectroscopy; Thermal; Underground mining

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED (FTIR); THERMAL INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY (TIR);

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; REFLECTION; SILICATES; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

ROCKS;

MAPPING; REFLECTANCE; ROCK; SPECTROSCOPY; UNDERGROUND ENVIRONMENT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; SUDBURY BASIN; SUDBURY STRUCTURE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 9244239159     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25372.1     Document Type: Article

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