期刊
JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE
卷 35, 期 1-2, 页码 81-92出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3170
关键词
Alaska; classification; glass geochemistry; machine learning; tephra
资金
- Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) grant [G042812N]
- NSF [1602106]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master's (CGS M)
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1602106] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Glass composition-based correlations of volcanic ash (tephra) traditionally rely on extensive manual plotting. Many previous statistical methods for testing correlations are limited by using geochemical means, masking diagnostic variability. We suggest that machine learning classifiers can expedite correlation, quickly narrowing the list of likely candidates using well-trained models. Eruptives from Alaska's Aleutian Arc-Alaska Peninsula and Wrangell volcanic field were used as a test environment for 11 supervised classification algorithms, trained on nearly 2000 electron probe microanalysis measurements of glass major oxides, representing 10 volcanic sources. Artificial neural networks and random forests were consistently among the top-performing learners (accuracy and kappa > 0.96). Their combination as an average ensemble effectively improves their performance. Using this combined model on tephras from Eklutna Lake, south-central Alaska, showed that predictions match traditional methods and can speed correlation. Although classifiers are useful tools, they should aid expert analysis, not replace it. The Eklutna Lake tephras are mostly from Redoubt Volcano. Besides tephras from known Holocene-active sources, Holocene tephra geochemically consistent with Pleistocene Emmons Lake Volcanic Center (Dawson tephra), but from a yet unknown source, is evident. These tephras are mostly anchored by a highly resolved varved chronology and represent new important regional stratigraphic markers.
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