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- Title
Favourable uranium-phosphate exploration trends guided by the application of statistical factor analysis technique on the aerial gamma spectrometric data in Syrian desert (Area-1), Syria.
- Authors
Asfahani, J; Al-Hent, R; Aissa, M
- Abstract
A scored lithological map including 10 radiometric units is established through applying factor analysis approach to aerial spectrometric data of Area-1, Syrian desert, which includes Ur, eU, eTh, K%, eU/eTh, eU/K%, and eTh/K%. A model of four rotated factors F1, F2, F3, and F4 is adapted for representing 234,829 data measured points in Area-1, where 86% of total data variance is interpreted. A geological scored pseudo-section derived from the lithological scored map is established and analyzed in order to show the possible stratigraphic and structural traps for uranium occurrences associated with phosphate deposits in the studied Area-1. These identified traps presented in this paper need detailed investigation and must be necessarily followed and checked by ground validations and subsurface well logging, in order to locate the anomalous uranium occurrences and explore with more confidence and certitude their characteristics as a function of depth.
- Subjects
GEOGRAPHICAL discoveries; DESERT research; QUANTITATIVE research; GAMMA ray spectrometer; GEOLOGICAL mapping; NUCLEAR activation analysis; PHOSPHATES; URANIUM
- Publication
Journal of Earth System Science, 2016, Vol 125, Issue 1, p203
- ISSN
0253-4126
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12040-015-0642-1