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.…
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…
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…