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Numerical strategies for magnetic mineral unmixing

Journal

EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
Volume 150, Issue -, Pages 256-284

Publisher

ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.07.007

Keywords

Magnetic unmixing; Environmental magnetism; Linear mixing

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  1. Australian Research Council [DP11010541, DP120103952, DP140104544]

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Iron-bearing minerals are sensitive to a wide spectrum of natural processes and thus carry important environmental information. In environmental magnetism, various techniques are used to identify and quantify magnetic mineral assemblages in natural materials, with the aim of drawing inferences concerning past environments and environmental change. Natural materials typically contain a number of magnetic mineral subpopulations with different origins that can reflect multiple environmental processes. Thus, it is essential that the information carried by such mixed magnetic mineral assemblages can be quantified in terms of environmentally meaningful component parts. Magnetic unmixing techniques are designed to perform this quantification and can, thus, act as a cornerstone for interpreting complex environmental magnetic data. In this review, numerical strategies for unmbdng magnetic mineral assemblages are discussed and are illustrated with examples. Emphasis is placed on the extent of available a priori knowledge concerning a magnetic mineral mixture and the ways that such information can be incorporated into a meaningful unmixing model. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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