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Doctoral Dissertations

1972

<p>Ore deposits -- Mississippi River Valley -- Mathematical models<br />Trend surface analysis<br />Geology

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Trend Surface Analysis As An Aid In Exploration For Mississippi Valley Type Ore Deposits, John Siegfried Trapp Jan 1972

Trend Surface Analysis As An Aid In Exploration For Mississippi Valley Type Ore Deposits, John Siegfried Trapp

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"The conditions necessary for emplacement of Mississippi Valley-type mineral deposits can be expressed using mathematical symbols as a function of the pre-depositional topography of the host formation and post-depositional structure. These conditions can be observed and analyzed in the Missouri region from residual maps of trend surface analysis of the Precambrian surface. In areas where the topography prior to deposition of the ore bearing horizon has been strongly altered by the deposition of the basal Paleozoic formation the Lamotte Formation residual maps from trend surface analysis of the top of the Lamotte better illustrate these conditions. The Lamotte Formation in …