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A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF A SEQUENCE OF COAL‐BEARING CYCLES IN THE NAMURIAN OF CENTRAL SCOTLAND, 2
Author(s) -
READ W. A.,
DEAN J. M.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
sedimentology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.494
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1365-3091
pISSN - 0037-0746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3091.1968.tb01104.x
Subject(s) - geology , principal component analysis , ecological succession , bearing (navigation) , structural basin , sequence (biology) , coal , sedimentation , yield (engineering) , coal basin , qualitative analysis , paleontology , coal mining , statistics , mathematics , computer science , archaeology , artificial intelligence , sediment , geography , qualitative research , ecology , chemistry , social science , materials science , sociology , biology , metallurgy , biochemistry
SUMMARY The quantitative relationships between stratigraphical variables from a succession of coal‐bearing cycles deposited in a subsiding basin have been investigated using principal component‐ and factor analysis, in an attempt to reveal simple relationships undetected by conventional qualitative methods. Knowledge of such relationships will undoubtedly be useful in future computer simulation studies of cyclical sedimentation. Principal component analysis and factor analysis yield similar results, which confirm and amplify those of the trend surface analysis described in R ead and D ean (1967).