This book come about because of my poor memory : it is amazing how quickly and easly an experienced electron microscopist/mineralogist can identify minerals with an Energy Dispersive Spectrometer (EDS). It is also amazing how long it takes someone who is not good at mineralogy to search through a mineralogy text,trying to match the peaks on their unknown spectrum with the chemical formula of so…
Any geologists can now afford to sharpen his thinking and improve the reliability of his conclusions through the statistical methods that are explained in this volume. No previous knowledge of statistic is necessary, and only those statistical methods are introduced that pertain to geological data and geological problems. Illustrating the methods are many numerical examples, all using a minimum…