Mineral species frequency distribution conforms to a large number of rare events model: prediction of Earth's missing minerals

DOI10.1007/s11004-015-9600-3zbMath1323.86044MaRDI QIDQ888385

Robert T. Downs, Robert M. Hazen, Grethe Hystad

Publication date: 30 October 2015

Published in: Mathematical Geosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-015-9600-3

zbMATH Keywords

mineral ecology; mineral frequency distribution; statistical mineralogy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A32: Geostatistics

86A60: Geological problems

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Uses Software

• zipfR
• SPECIES
• bootstrap

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