Citation: Thomazo C, Buoncristiani J-F, Vennin E, Pellenard P, Cocquerez T, Mugnier JL and Gérard E (2017) Geochemical Processes Leading to the Precipitation of Subglacial Carbonate Crusts at Bossons Glacier, Mont Blanc Massif (French Alps). Front. Earth Sci. 5:70. doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00070 Geochemical Processes Leading to the Precipitation of Subglacial Carbonate Crusts at Bossons Glacier,...

Most of the geochemical datasets include missing data with different portions and this may cause a significant problem in geostatistical modeling or multivariate analysis of the data. Therefore, it is common to impute the missing data in most of geochemical studies. In this study, three approaches called half detection (HD), multiple imputation (MI), and the cosimulation based on Markov model 2...

Motivated by the recent successful results of using GIS modeling in a variety of problems related to the geosciences, some knowledge-based methods were applied to a regional scale mapping of the mineral potential, special for Cu-Au mineralization in the Feyz-Abad area located in the NE of Iran. Mineral Prospectivity Mapping (MPM) is a multi-step process that ranks a promising target area for mo...

Is UV laser ablation a suitable tool for geochemical analysis of organic rich source materials? Conference Item How to cite: Sestak, Stephen; Watson, Jonathan S.; Sherlock, Sarah; Greenwood, Paul F. and Fuentes, David (2008). Is UV laser ablation a suitable tool for geochemical analysis of organic rich source materials? In: 15th Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference, 8-12 September, Adelaide.

The most significant aspect of a geochemical exploration program is to define and separate the anomalous values from the background. In the past decades, geochemical anomalies have been identified by means of various methods. Most of the conventional statistical methods aiming at defining the geochemical concentration thresholds for separating anomalies from the background have limited the effi...

Geochemical anomalies are geochemical features different from what is considered normal. They can be the result of: 1. unusual or uncommon processes concentrating particular elements (e.g. an ore-forming process, weathering and element dispersion from an unusual element concentration such as an orebody); 2. element accumulation or concentration by common processes acting over long periods (e.g....

The El Oro complex, southwestern Ecuador, is a tilted section of the metasedimentary Ecuadorian forearc, which was partially molten during Triassic time due to gabbroic magma emplacement. Pressure and maximum temperature estimates show that the metamorphic gradient during anatexis was 45 °C/km in the upper crust and 10 °C/km in the 7–8 km garnet-bearing migmatitic lower crust, controlled by bio...

Exploration geochemistry continues to be a major contributor to mineral exploration programs at all scales. The decade has spanned a complete economic cycle in the minerals industry, during which there has been a change in exploration emphasis from the dominance of Au and diamonds to the addition of a range of base metals and the recent revival of U exploration. Increasing metal prices and the ...