This study investigates the application of Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA) and multivariate statistical techniques to geochemical data from the soils of the Campania region. The dataset examined includes 3571 soil samples analyzed for 37 chemical elements. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was employed to reduce the dataset’s dimensionality and identify key relationships between elements.…
In this study, we present a machine learning-based method to predict trace element concentrations from major and minor element concentration data using a legacy lithogeochemical database of magmatic rocks from the Karoo large igneous province (Gondwana Supercontinent). Wedemonstrate that a variety of trace elements, including most of the lanthanides, chalcophile, lithophile, and siderophile ele…
Geochemical data are compositional in nature and are subject to the problems typically associated with data that are restricted to the real non-negative number space with constant-sum constraint, that is, the simplex. Geochemistry can be considered a proxy for mineralogy, comprised of atomically ordered structures that define the placement and abundance of elements in the mineral lattice struct…
Amalgamations (i.e. summing) of parts can be included as new parts in compositional data analysis, and logratios can then be formed using these amalgamations as well as any of the individual parts themselves. In the first contribution of this paper, a comparison is made of the performance of different logratio transformations in explaining the structure of a geochemical data set − some …
Since the advent of modern computing, geochemists have increasingly relied on computers to garner efficiencies in calculations, data analysis, and data presentation. Entirely new fields, such as Monte Carlo-based simulation and geochemical modeling, have developed under this paradigm. With continued growth in computing power, machine learning has become an increasingly popular tool in aqueous g…