Geochemical Prospecting & Exploration

performed by systematic measurements of one or more
chemical parameters, usually in traces, of naturally
occurring material in the Earth’s crust

Primary Dispersion

dispersion by aqueous fluids;
expression of alteration and zoning

Dispersion Train

Dispersion Halo

Physical dispersion/weathering

the effect of purely mechanical agencies such as the movement of material by stream or glacial action.

Chemical dispersion/weathering

generates fractions of widely differing chemical composition