endmembers {provenance}

Petrographic end-member compositions

Description

A compositional dataset comprising the mineralogical compositions of the following end-members: undissected_magmatic_arc, dissected_magmatic_arc, ophiolite, recycled_clastic, undissected_continental_block, transitional_continental_block, dissected_continental_block, subcreted_axial_belt and subducted_axial_belt

Author(s)

Alberto Resentini and Pieter Vermeesch

References

Resentini, A, Malusa M G and Garzanti, E. "MinSORTING: An Excel worksheet for modelling mineral grain-size distribution in sediments, with application to detrital geochronology and provenance studies." Computers & Geosciences 59 (2013): 90-97.

Garzanti, E, Ando, S and Vezzoli, G. "Settling equivalence of detrital minerals and grain-size dependence of sediment composition." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 273.1 (2008): 138-151.

See Also

minsorting

Examples

ophiolite <- subset(endmembers,select="ophiolite")
plot(minsorting(ophiolite,densities,by=0.05))