major {geostats}

composition of Namib dune sand

Description

Major element compositions of 16 Namib sand samples.

References

Vermeesch, P. & Garzanti, E. “Making geological sense of ‘Big Data’ in sedimentary provenance analysis.” Chemical Geology 409 (2015): 20-27.

Examples

data(major,package='geostats')
comp <- clr(major)
pc <- prcomp(comp)
biplot(pc)