Predicting new mineral occurrences and planetary analog environments via mineral association analysis.

ABSTRACT: The locations of minerals and mineral-forming environments, despite being of great scientific importance and economic interest, are often difficult to predict due to the complex nature of natural systems. In this work, we embrace the complexity and inherent "messiness" of our planet's intertwined geological, chemical, and biological systems by employing machine learning to characterize patterns embedded in the multidimensionality of mineral occurrence and associations. These patterns are a product of, and therefore offer insight into, the Earth's dynamic evolutionary history. Mineral association analysis quantifies high-dimensional multicorrelations in mineral localities across the globe, enabling the identification of previously unknown mineral occurrences, as well as mineral assemblages

SUBMITTER: Morrison SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10187660 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature