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Geochemical characterization of oceanic basalts using artificial neural network

DRS at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography

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Title Geochemical characterization of oceanic basalts using artificial neural network
 
Creator Das, P.
Iyer, S.D.
 
Subject oceanic basalts
artificial neural network
ocean floor basalts
Indian Ocean
 
Description The geochemical discriminate diagrams help to distinguish the volcanics recovered from different tectonic settings but these diagrams tend to group the ocean floor basalts (OFB) under one class i.e., as mid-oceanic ridge basalts (MORB). Hence, a method is specifically needed to identify the OFB as normal (N-MORB), enriched (E-MORB) and ocean island basalts (OIB). Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique as a supervised Learning Vector Quantisation (LVQ) is applied to identify the inherent geochemical signatures present in the Central Indian Ocean Basin (CIOB) basalts. A range of N-MORB, E-MORB and OIB dataset was used for training and testing of the network. Although the identification of the characters as N-MORB, E-MORB and OIB is completely dependent upon the training data set for the LVQ, but to a significant extent this method is found to be successful in identifying the characters within the CIOB basalts. The study helped to geochemically delineate the CIOB basalts as N-MORB with perceptible imprints of E-MORB and OIB characteristics in the form of moderately enriched rare earth and incompatible elements. Apart from the fact that the magmatic processes are difficult to be deciphered, the architecture performs satisfactorily
 
Date 2010-02-05T07:44:34Z
2010-02-05T07:44:34Z
2009
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Geochemical Transactions, vol.10; doi:10.1186/1467-4866-10-13; 11 pp
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http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/3542
 
Language en
 
Relation geochemical.jpg
 
Rights This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 
Publisher BioMed Central Ltd