This Jupyter notebook demonstrates the Bayesian eruption age estimation approach of Keller, Schoene, and Samperton (2018)
For future work, see Chron.jl, which can be run in standalone eruption/deposition mode similar to this notebook.
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# Required packages
using Plots; gr();
using KernelDensity: kde
using Statistics, SpecialFunctions
# Download file from the BayeZirChron repo if necessary
if ~isfile("DistTools.jl")
download("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brenhinkeller/BayeZirChron.c/master/julia/DistTools.jl","DistTools.jl")
end
# Functions we'll be using here
include("DistTools.jl");
dt_sigma = 30 # Timescale relative to analytical uncertainty
N = 42 # Number of zircons
# Draw set of pseudorandom ages from MELTS volcanic zircon distribution,
# with true minimum == 0 and analytical sigma == 1
ages = draw_from_distribution(MeltsVolcanicZirconDistribution,N).*dt_sigma + randn(N)
uncert = ones(N)
# Calculate the weighted mean age
(wx, wsigma, mswd) = awmean(ages, uncert)
h = plot(ylabel="Time before eruption (sigma)", xlabel="N", fg_color_legend=:white, legend=:topleft)
plot!(h,1:length(ages),sort(ages),yerror=uncert*2,seriestype=:scatter, markerstrokecolor=:auto, label="Synthetic zircon ages")
plot!(h,collect(xlims()), [0,0], label="Eruption age")
plot!(h,collect(xlims()), [wx,wx], label="Weighted mean, MSWD $(round(mswd,digits=2))")
# Maximum extent of expected analytical tail (beyond eruption/deposition)
maxTailLength = mean(uncert) * norm_quantile(1 - 1/(length(ages) + 1));
included = (ages .- minimum(ages)) .>= maxTailLength;
# Bootstrapped crystallization distribution, excluding maximum analytical tail
if sum(included) > 5
dist = BootstrapCrystDistributionKDE(ages[included]);
else
# Avoid edge cases at n = 0 and n = 2;
# Default to n = 1 instead, which yields a half-normal distribution
dist = BootstrapCrystDistributionKDE([0.]);
end
dist = dist./mean(dist);
# Plot bootstrapped distribution
plot(range(0,1.3,length=length(dist)),dist, label="bootstrapped", ylabel="Probability Density", xlabel="Time before eruption (scaled)", legend=:bottomleft, fg_color_legend=:white)
plot!(range(0,1,length=100),MeltsVolcanicZirconDistribution,label="original")
# Configure model
nsteps = 200000 # Length of Markov chain
burnin = 100000 # Number of steps to discard at beginning of Markov chain
# Run MCMC
tminDist = zeros(nsteps)
metropolis_min(nsteps,dist,ages,uncert,tminDist)
# Print results
AgeEst = mean(tminDist[burnin:end])
AgeEst_sigma = std(tminDist[burnin:end])
print("\nEstimated eruption age of synthetic dataset:\n $AgeEst +/- $(2*AgeEst_sigma) Ma (2σ)\n (True synthetic age 0 Ma)")
# Plot results
h = histogram(tminDist[burnin:end],nbins=50,label="Posterior distribution",xlabel="Eruption Age (Ma)",ylabel="N")
plot!(h,[0,0],collect(ylims()),line=(3),label="True (synthetic) age",fg_color_legend=:white)
plot!(h,[wx,wx],collect(ylims()),line=(3),label="Weighted mean age",legend=:topright)
display(h)
sleep(0.5) # (just to make sure this section is finished running)
Estimated eruption age of synthetic dataset: 0.03542759403584769 +/- 2.639939347467269 Ma (2σ) (True synthetic age 0 Ma)
The example dataset here is from Wotzlaw et al., 2013 FCT+MLX
# Age and one-sigma uncertainty.
ages = [28.196, 28.206, 28.215, 28.224, 28.232, 28.241, 28.246, 28.289, 28.308, 28.332, 28.341, 28.359, 28.379, 28.383, 28.395, 28.4, 28.405, 28.413, 28.415, 28.418, 28.42, 28.422, 28.428, 28.452, 28.454, 28.454, 28.458, 28.468, 28.471, 28.475, 28.482, 28.485, 28.502, 28.52, 28.551, 28.561, 28.565, 28.582, 28.584, 28.586, 28.611, 28.638, 28.655]
uncert = [0.019, 0.0155, 0.019, 0.0215, 0.018, 0.023, 0.013, 0.029, 0.0175, 0.0315, 0.0095, 0.0245, 0.0255, 0.0175, 0.0235, 0.014, 0.021, 0.022, 0.0125, 0.0135, 0.016, 0.0195, 0.0175, 0.0125, 0.01, 0.014, 0.015, 0.0205, 0.0155, 0.011, 0.0115, 0.0185, 0.0255, 0.014, 0.0125, 0.013, 0.015, 0.014, 0.012, 0.016, 0.0215, 0.0125, 0.0215]
# Sort by age (just to make rank-order plots prettier)
t = sortperm(ages)
ages = ages[t];
uncert = uncert[t];
# Maximum extent of expected analytical tail (beyond eruption/deposition)
maxTailLength = mean(uncert) * norm_quantile(1-1/(length(ages) + 1))
included = (ages .- minimum(ages)) .>= maxTailLength
# Bootstrapped crystallization distribution, excluding maximum analytical tail
if sum(included) > 5
dist = BootstrapCrystDistributionKDE(ages[included])
else
# Avoid edge cases at n = 0 and n = 2;
# Default to n = 1 instead, which yields a half-normal distribution
dist = BootstrapCrystDistributionKDE([0.])
end
dist = dist./mean(dist)
# Plot bootstrapped distribution
plot(range(0,1,length=length(dist)),dist, label="bootstrapped", ylabel="Probability Density", xlabel="Time before eruption (unitless)", fg_color_legend=:white)
# Configure model
nsteps = 400000 # Length of Markov chain
burnin = 150000 # Number of steps to discard at beginning of Markov chain
# Run MCMC
tminDist = zeros(nsteps)
metropolis_min(nsteps,dist,ages,uncert,tminDist)
# Consider also:
# metropolis_min(nsteps,UniformDistribution,ages,uncert,tminDist);
# metropolis_min(nsteps,TriangularDistribution,ages,uncert,tminDist);
# metropolis_min(nsteps,HalfNormalDistribution,ages,uncert,tminDist);
# metropolis_min(nsteps,MeltsVolcanicZirconDistribution,ages,uncert,tminDist);
# Print results
AgeEst = mean(tminDist[burnin:end]);
AgeEst_sigma = std(tminDist[burnin:end]);
print("\nEstimated eruption age:\n $AgeEst +/- $(2*AgeEst_sigma) Ma (2σ)\n")
# Plot results
h = histogram(tminDist[burnin:end],nbins=100,label="Posterior distribution",xlabel="Eruption Age (Ma)",ylabel="N",legend=:topleft,fg_color_legend=:white)
# plot!(h,[wx,wx],collect(ylims()),line=(3),label="Weighted mean age",legend=:topleft)
display(h)
sleep(0.5)
Estimated eruption age: 28.1839792870061 +/- 0.037925204048165476 Ma (2σ)
# Plot eruption age estimate relative to rank-order plot of raw zircon ages
h = plot(ylabel="Age (Ma)", xlabel="N", legend=:topleft, fg_color_legend=:white)
plot!(h,1:length(ages),ages,yerror=uncert*2,seriestype=:scatter, markerstrokecolor=:auto, label="Observed ages")
plot!(h,[length(ages)],[AgeEst],yerror=2*AgeEst_sigma, markerstrokecolor=:auto, label="Bayesian eruption age estimate",color=:red)
plot!(h,collect(xlims()),[AgeEst,AgeEst],color=:red, label="")