USING GEOCHEMICAL DATA:

USING GEOCHEMICAL DATA:

EVALUATION, Presentation, Interpretation

Autor: Hugh R. Rollinson

ISBN: 0 582 06701 4

CONTENIDO

Ø  Geochemical Data

1.       Introduction

2.       Geological processes and their geochemical signature

3.       Geological controls on geochemical data

4.       Analytical methods in geochemistry

5.       Selecting an appropriate analytical technical technique

6.       Sources of error in geochemical analysis

7.       Analysing geochemical data

8.       Averages

9.       Correlation

10.   Regression

11.   Ratio correlation

12.   The constant sum problem

13.   The interpretation of trends on triangular diagrams

14.   Principal component analysis

15.   Discriminant analysis

16.   Using major element data

17.   Rock classification

18.   Variation diagrams

19.   Diagrams on which rock chemistry can be plotted together whit experimentally determined phase boundaries

20.   Using trace element data

21.   Controls on trace element distributiom

22.   Rare earth elements

23.   Normalized multi-element diagrams or incompatible element diagrams (diagrams)

24.   Platinum metal group element (PGE) plots

25.   Transition metal plots

26.   Bivariate trace element plots

27.   Enrichment-depletion diagrams

28.   Modeling trace element processes igneous rocks

29.   Discriminating between tectonic environments using geochemical data

30.   Discrimination diagrams for rocks of basaltic to andesitic composition

31.   Discrimination diagrams for rocks of granitic composition

32.   Discrimination diagrams for clastic sediments

33.   Tectonic controls on magmatic and sedimentary geochemistry

34.   Using radiogenic isotope data

35.   Radiogenic isotopes in geochronology

36.   Radiogenic isotopes in petrogenesis

37.   Using stable isotope data

38.   Using oxygen isotope

39.   Fingerprinting hydrothermal solutions using oxygen and hydrogen isotopes- water- rock interaction

40.   Using carbon isotopes

41.   Using sulphur isotopes