Bonham-Carter / Cheng / Qiuming Progress in Geomathematics

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-540-69496-0
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 554 Seiten

Celebrating Frits Agterberg's half-century of publication activity in geomathematics, this volume's 28 timely papers, written by his friends and colleagues, treat a variety of subjects of current interest, many of them also studied by Frits, including: spatial analysis in mineral resource assessment, quantitative stratigraphy, nonlinear multifractal models, compositional data analysis, time series analysis, image analysis, and geostatistics. Professor Agterberg published his first paper as a graduate student in 1958 and has since produced (and continues to publish) a steady stream of research papers on a wide variety of subjects of interest to geomathematical practitioners. Most of the papers included here address methodology and feature practical case studies, so that the book likely has broad appeal to those interested in mathematical geosciences, both to academic researchers seeking a comprehensive overview and also to practitioners of geomathematical approaches in industry.

Graeme Bonham-Carter, who retired from the Geological Survey of Canada, has published extensively on computer methods in the geosciences. His two textbooks 'Computer Simulation in Geology' (Wiley, 1970, with John Harbaugh) and 'Geographic Information Systems for Geoscientists: Modelling with GIS' (Pergamon, 1994) have been widely used and cited. He was Editor in Chief of Computers & Geosciences for 11 years. Qiuming Cheng is Professor at York University (Toronto) and Director of State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources at China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. He has published extensively on spatial analysis, GIS, fractal and multifractal models, spatial decision support

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bonham-Carter, Graeme

Cheng, Qiuming

Qiuming, Cheng

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;List of Contributors;9
3;Introduction;14
4;The Role of Frederik Pieter Agterberg in the Development of Geomathematics;18
5;Another Look at the Chemical Relationships in the Dissolved Phase of Complex River Systems;35
6;A Critical Approach to Probability Laws in Geochemistry;50
7;Investigation of the Structure of Geological Process Through Multivariate Statistical Analysis — The Creation of a Coal;64
8;Master of the Obscure—Automated Geostatistical Classification in Presence of Complex Geophysical Processes;89
9;The Rapid Retreat of Jakobshavns Isbræ, West Greenland: Field Observations of 2005 and Structural Analysis of its Evolution;122
10;Spatiotemporal Continuity of Sequential Rain Suggested by 3- D Variogram;140
11;Anisotropic Scaling Models of Rock Density and the Earth’s Surface Gravity Field;160
12;Non-linear Theory and Power-Law Models for Information Integration and Mineral Resources Quantitative Assessments;203
13;Mineral Potential Modelling for the Greater Nahanni Ecosystem Using GIS Based Analytical Methods;234
14;Map Scale Effects on Estimating the Number of Undiscovered Mineral Deposits;277
15;Are Fractal Dimensions of the Spatial Distribution of Mineral Deposits Meaningful?;290
16;African Neoproterozoic Mineral Deposits and Pan African Metallogenesis;307
17;On Blind Tests and Spatial Prediction Models;318
18;Strip Transect Sampling to Estimate Object Abundance in Homogeneous and Non- Homogeneous Poisson Fields: A Simulation Study of the Effects of Changing Transect Width and Number;336
19;Increasing Resolution in Exploration Biostratigraphy – Part I;355
20;Increasing Resolution in Exploration Biostratigraphy – Part II;370
21;RASC/CASC: Example of Creative Application of Statistics in Geology;380
22;Euclidean Distances and Singular Value Decomposition: Useful Tools for Geometric Morphometrics in Biology and Paleontology;394
23;A Note on Seasonal Variation in Radiolarian Abundance;417
24;Application of Markov Mean First-Passage Time Statistics to Sedimentary Successions: A Pennsylvanian Case- Study from the Illinois Basin;435
25;The Beta Distribution for Categorical Variables at Different Support;444
26;Enhancement of Seafloor Maps for Mecklenburg Bay, Baltic Sea, Using Proxy Variables;456
27;Statistical Analysis of Physiographic and Structural Directional Data in the U.S. Midcontinent ( Kansas);480
28;Cross-Wavelet Analysis: A Tool for Detection of Relationships Between Paleoclimate Proxy Records;498
29;On Correlational Properties for Volcanic Earthquakes Associated with Asamayama ( Japan), 1983 – 2005;511
30;Crosscorrelation of Sea Levels;526
31;Diversion of Flooding Rivers to Residual Mining Open Pits;532
32;A Christmas Parking Lot Problem;542