lorenzo Borselli, 2009, DECONVOLUTION OF MIXTURES OF LOGNORMAL COMPONENTS INSIDE PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS, 2009,
URL: http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/176872

Experimentally derived particle size distribution often shown multimodal shape and this characteristic is usually interpreted as a mixture of two or more populations. The origin of these mixture has been commonly interpreted as due to the complex processes linked to the origin of the sediment ad clasts , to the transport and final deposition, or in other terms, the geological cycle of sediment transport and evolution, the weathering and pedogenenetic process may affect the final distribution of particles present in the sampled deposit. The basic idea that the all the processes responsible of the deposit leave some trace of them in the special characteristics of the mixture and their populations. We assume that the mixture maintain encoded in its global distribution informations Aim of DECOLOG software is develop a solution to decode the information present in the natural mixture of particles/sediments using, as paradigm, the log-normal distribution and particularly a defined mixture of these distributions. Decolog performs this operation using innovative techniques of optimization and in automatic way without needs of special efforts from user as the initial guessing of Peaks of the observed distribution ..... The easiness of use is one of the most innovative and appreciated characteristics of current version of DECOLOG

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