Stream sediment geochemical data analysis for district-scale mineral exploration targeting: Measuring the performance of the spatial U-statistic and CA fractal …

S Ghasemzadeh, A Maghsoudi, M Yousefi… - Ore Geology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recognition of mineralization-related geochemical footprints and modeling their multi-
element dispersion patterns are important aspects to consider when “vectoring” toward …

Recognition of an enhanced multi-element geochemical signature of porphyry copper deposits for vectoring into mineralized zones and delimiting exploration targets …

M Yousefi - Ore Geology Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Delimiting exploration targets using geochemical exploration data can be a challenging
issue when different geochemical signatures represent the same deposit-type sought. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Discovering hidden spatial patterns and their associations with controlling factors for potentially toxic elements in topsoil using hot spot analysis and K-means …

H Xu, P Croot, C Zhang - Environment International, 2021 - Elsevier
The understanding of sources and controlling factors of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in
soils plays an important role in the improvement of environmental management. With the …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the intellectual and conceptual structure of research on CoDa in the 'Social Sciences' scientific domain. A bibliometric overview

A Martinez-Garcia, P Horrach-Rossello… - Journal of Geochemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article presents a bibliometric analysis and a mapping of the intellectual and conceptual
structure of the research conducted on 'Compositional Data'(CoDa) in Social Sciences …

Identification of heavy metal pollution sources and its associated risk assessment in an industrial town using the K-means clustering technique

N Khorshidi, M Parsa, DR Lentz, J Sobhanverdi - Applied Geochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
This study intends to (i) identify the potential sources of heavy metal (HM) pollution in an
industrial town situated in the northwestern part of Iran and (ii) and assess whether the …

Distribution of potentially toxic elements in soils and sediments in Pearl River Delta, China: Natural versus anthropogenic source discrimination

J Wang, J Yuan, Q Hou, Z Yang, Y You, T Yu… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although anthropogenic contamination has been regarded as the most important source of
potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in soils of large river delta plains, the extent to which …

Potentially toxic elements in soils of Campania region (Southern Italy): Combining raw and compositional data

D Zuzolo, D Cicchella, A Lima, I Guagliardi… - Journal of Geochemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Concern about health effect of Potentially Toxic Elements (PTEs) has led to an increasing
global attention about their concentration levels in the environment. Soil geochemistry has …

Regional-scale mapping for determining geochemical background values in soils of the Itacaiúnas River Basin, Brazil: The use of compositional data analysis (CoDA)

PK Sahoo, R Dall'Agnol, GN Salomão, JSF Junior… - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
This study aims at providing high quality soil geochemical data at a regional scale (1 sample
per 25 km 2) to understand the source and distribution of potentially toxic elements (PTEs …

Urban soil contamination in Salerno (Italy): Concentrations and patterns of major, minor, trace and ultra-trace elements in soils

D Cicchella, D Zuzolo, S Albanese, L Fedele… - Journal of Geochemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work discusses the results of a geochemical survey conducted in the Salerno urban
area to determine the sources patterns of major, minor, trace and ultra-trace elements in …

Evaluation of tourism impact on soil metal accumulation through single and integrated indices

V Memoli, F Esposito, SC Panico, A De Marco… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, surface soils of remote or protected areas, that receive pollutants from the
surroundings or in situ activities through dry and wet deposition, exceed the baseline …