Author(s)

Sina Alahgholi¹, Adel Shirazy^2*, Aref Shirazi³

¹Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran.
²Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran.
³Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

The aim of this study is geostatistical analysis and detection of anomalous elements in the Bardaskan area (in geological map of Bardaskan on scale 1:100,000 which is provided by the GSI organization). The study area is located in Khorasan province of Iran. Due to the availability of lithogeochemical regular data in the region as well as the importance of exploration of metal minerals in order to simplify and summarize the geochemical map, geostatistical methods were used to identify the mineralization potential of the region. Initially, using single-variable and multivariate statistical methods, anomalous elements were separated. Then, the thresholds (various communities) for the titanium element that was most likely to be anomalous were identified. Using these limits, the discriminant analysis was applied to the elements. Titanium, iron and magnesium elements were identified as the main mineral elements in the region. These elements indicate mineralization in the mafic bed rocks. Finally the map of the concentration of titanium element was mapped across the region with Kriging interpolation method. As a result, two anomalies of the titanium element in the region were identified.

Geostatistics, Geochemical Exploration, Discriminant Analysis, Titanium

Alahgholi, S. , Shirazy, A. and Shirazi, A. (2018) Geostatistical Studies and Anomalous Elements Detection, Bardaskan Area, Iran. Open Journal of Geology, 8, 697-710. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2018.87041.