Relative abundances of mineral species: a statistical measure to characterize Earth-like planets based on Earth's mineralogy

DOI10.1007/S11004-016-9661-YMaRDI QIDQ2360992zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Grethe Hystad, Robert T. Downs, Robert M. Hazen, Joshua J. Golden

Publication date 29 June 2017

Published in Mathematical Geosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-016-9661-y

zbMATH Keywords

Earth-like planetslarge number of rare events distributionMars mineralogymineral ecologymineral frequency distributionstatistical mineralogy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Potentials, prospecting (86A20) Geostatistics (86A32)

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