Computerized Modeling Of Sedimentary Systems

Author : Jan Harff,Wolfram Lemke,Karl Stattegger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662039021

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Computerized Modeling of Sedimentary Systems by Jan Harff,Wolfram Lemke,Karl Stattegger Pdf

Computerized modeling is a powerful tool to describe the complex interrelations between measured data and the dynamics of sedimentary systems. Complex interaction of environmental factors with natural variations and increasing anthropogenic intervention is reflected in the sedimentary record at varying scales. The understanding of these processes gives way to the reconstruction of the past and is a key to the prediction of future trends. Especially in cases where observations are limited and/or expensive, computer simulations may substitute for the lack of data. State-of-the-art research work requires a thorough knowledge of processes at the interfaces between atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere, and is therefore an interdisciplinary approach.

Author : Daniel F. Merriam,John C. Davis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461513599

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Geologic Modeling and Simulation by Daniel F. Merriam,John C. Davis Pdf

Modeling and simulation were introduced to the earth sciences about four decades ago. Modeling has proven its worth and now it is an accepted procedure for analyzing and solving geological problems. The papers in this collection are focused on modeling sediment deposition and sedimentary sequences and have a decidedly practical flavor. Some of the leading simulation packages, such as CORRELATOR, SEDFLUX, SEDpak, SEDSIM, STRATA, and STRATSIM are applied to problems in hydrocarbon exploration, oil production, groundwater development, coal-bed appraisal, geothermics, and environmental diagnosis. All of these subjects fall under the broad heading of sedimentary basin analysis. The fifteen papers in this volume are written by internationally recognized experts from academia and industry. The contributions represent the status of geologic modeling and simulation at the start of the 21st century, and will give the reader an insight into current research problems and their possible solutions.

Author : Poppe de Boer,George Postma,Kees van der Zwan,Peter Burgess,Peter Kukla
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444303148

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Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Sedimentary Systems by Poppe de Boer,George Postma,Kees van der Zwan,Peter Burgess,Peter Kukla Pdf

Understanding basin-fill evolution and the origin of stratal architectures has traditionally been based on studies of outcrops, well and seismic data, studies of and inferences on qualitative geological processes, and to a lesser extent based on quantitative observations of modern and ancient sedimentary environments. Insight gained on the basis of these studies can increasingly be tested and extended through the application of numerical and analogue forward models. Present-day stratigraphic forward modelling follows two principle lines: 1) the deterministic process-based approach, ideally with resolution of the fundamental equations of fluid and sediment motion at all scales, and 2) the stochastic approach. The process-based approach leads to improved understanding of the dynamics (physics) of the system, increasing our predictive power of how systems evolve under various forcing conditions unless the system is highly non-linear and hence difficult or perhaps even impossible to predict. The stochastic approach is more direct, relatively simple, and useful for study of more complicated or less-well understood systems. Process-based models, more than stochastic ones, are directly limited by the diversity of temporal and spatial scales and the very incomplete knowledge of how processes operate and interact on the various scales. The papers included in this book demonstrate how cross-fertilization between traditional field studies and analogue and numerical forward modelling expands our understanding of Earth-surface systems.

Author : Jon R. Rotzien,Cindy A. Yeilding,Richard A. Sears,F. Javier Hernández-Molina,Octavian Catuneanu
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780323919210

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Deepwater Sedimentary Systems by Jon R. Rotzien,Cindy A. Yeilding,Richard A. Sears,F. Javier Hernández-Molina,Octavian Catuneanu Pdf

Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Science, Discovery and Applications helps readers identify, understand and interpret deepwater sedimentary systems at various scales – both onshore and offshore. This book describes the best practices in the integration of geology, geophysics, engineering, technology and economics used to inform smart business decisions in these diverse environments. It draws on technical results gained from deepwater exploration and production drilling campaigns and global field analog studies. With the multi-decadal resilience of deepwater exploration and production and the nature of its inherent uncertainty, this book serves as the essential reference for companies, consultancies, universities, governments and deepwater practitioners around the world seeking to understand deepwater systems and how to explore for and produce resources in these frontier environments. From an academic perspective, readers will use this book as the primer for understanding the processes, deposits and sedimentary environments in deep water – from deep oceans to deep lakes. This book provides conceptual approaches and state-of-the-art information on deepwater systems, as well as scenarios for the next 100 years of human-led exploration and development in deepwater, offshore environments. The students taught this material in today’s classrooms will become the leaders of tomorrow in Earth’s deepwater frontier. This book provides a broad foundation in deepwater sedimentary systems. What may take an individual dozens of academic and professional courses to achieve an understanding in these systems is provided here in one book. Presents a holistic view of how subsurface and engineering processes work together in the energy industry, bringing together contributions from the various technical and engineering disciplines Provides diverse perspectives from a global authorship to create an accurate picture of the process of deepwater exploration and production around the world Helps readers understand how to interpret deepwater systems at various scales to inform smart business decisions, with a significant portion of the workflows derived from the upstream energy industry

Author : Robert V. Demicco,George J. Klir
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080521893

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Fuzzy Logic in Geology by Robert V. Demicco,George J. Klir Pdf

What is fuzzy logic?--a system of concepts and methods for exploring modes of reasoning that are approximate rather than exact. While the engineering community has appreciated the advances in understanding using fuzzy logic for quite some time, fuzzy logic's impact in non-engineering disciplines is only now being recognized. The authors of Fuzzy Logic in Geology attend to this growing interest in the subject and introduce the use of fuzzy set theory in a style geoscientists can understand. This is followed by individual chapters on topics relevant to earth scientists: sediment modeling, fracture detection, reservoir characterization, clustering in geophysical data analysis, ground water movement, and time series analysis. George Klir is the Distinguished Professor of Systems Science and Director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, Fellow of the IEEE and IFSA, editor of nine volumes, editorial board member of 18 journals, and author or co-author of 16 books Foreword by the inventor of fuzzy logic-- Professor Lotfi Zadeh

Author : V.C. Lakhan
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080526645

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Advances in Coastal Modeling by V.C. Lakhan Pdf

This book unifies and enhances the accessibility of contemporary scholarly research on advances in coastal modeling. A comprehensive spectrum of innovative models addresses the wide diversity and multifaceted aspects of coastal research on the complex natural processes, dynamics, interactions and responses of the coastal supersystem and its associated subsystems. The twenty-one chapters, contributed by internationally recognized coastal experts from fourteen countries, provide invaluable insights on the recent advances and present state-of-the-art knowledge on coastal models which are essential for not only illuminating the governing coastal process and various characteristics, but also for understanding and predicting the dynamics at work in the coastal system. One of the unique strengths of the book is the impressive and encompassing presentation of current functional and operational coastal models for all those concerned with and interested in the modeling of seas, oceans and coasts. In addition to chapters modeling the dynamic natural processes of waves, currents, circulatory flows and sediment transport there are also chapters that focus on the modeling of beaches, shorelines, tidal basins and shore platforms. The substantial scope of the book is further strengthened with chapters concentrating on the effects of coastal structures on nearshore flows, coastal water quality, coastal pollution, coastal ecological modeling, statistical data modeling, and coupling of coastal models with geographical information systems.

Author : Peter Sincak,Kaoru Hirota,J n Vas?c? k
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9812562532

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Machine Intelligence by Peter Sincak,Kaoru Hirota,J n Vas?c? k Pdf

This book brings together the contributions of leading researchers inthe field of machine intelligence, covering areas such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computation and hybrid systems.There is wide coverage of the subject from simple tools, throughindustrial applications, to applications in high-level intelligentsystems which are biologically motivated, such as humanoid robots (andselected parts of these systems, like the visual cortex). Readers willgain a comprehensive overview of the issues in machine intelligence, afield which promises to play a very important role in the informationsociety of the future

Author : Betty M. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Petroleum
ISBN : UFL:31262085274636

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The MuPETROL Expert System for Classifying World Sedimentary Basins by Betty M. Miller Pdf

A microcomputer-based expert system with computer models for classifying world sedimentary basins as an aid to assessing petroleum resources.

Author : Priska Schäfer,Will Ritzrau,Michael Schlüter,Jörn Thiede
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642568763

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The Northern North Atlantic by Priska Schäfer,Will Ritzrau,Michael Schlüter,Jörn Thiede Pdf

The northern North Atlantic is one of the regions most sensitive to past and present global changes. This book integrates the results of an interdisciplinary project studying the properties of the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas and the processes of pelagic and benthic particle formation, particle transport, and deposition in the deep-sea sediments. Ice-related and biogeochemical processes have been investigated to decipher the spatial and temporal variability of the production and fate of organic carbon in this region. Isotopic stratigraphy, microfossil assemblages and paleotemperatures are combined to reconstruct paleoceanographic conditions and to model past climatic changes in the Late Quaternary. The Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas can now be considered one of the best studied subbasins of the world`s oceans.

Author : Brian W. Romans,Julie Fosdick,William Helland-Hansen,Miquel Poyatos Moré
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889661367

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Sedimentary System Responses to External Forcings: a Process-Based Perspective by Brian W. Romans,Julie Fosdick,William Helland-Hansen,Miquel Poyatos Moré Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Fiona J. Dyer,Martin C. Thoms,Jon M. Olley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Rivers
ISBN : 1901502961

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The Structure, Function and Management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems by Fiona J. Dyer,Martin C. Thoms,Jon M. Olley Pdf

Author : Michael J. Hambrey,Poul Christoffersen,Neil F. Glasser,Bryn Hubbard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444304442

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Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products by Michael J. Hambrey,Poul Christoffersen,Neil F. Glasser,Bryn Hubbard Pdf

Associating ice masses with the transport and deposition ofsediments has long formed a central theme in glaciology and glacialgeomorphology. The reason for this focus is clear, in that icemasses are responsible for much of the physical landscape whichcharacterizes the Earth's glaciated regions. This association alsoholds at a variety of scales, for example, from the grain-sizecharacteristics of small-scale moraines to the structuralarchitecture of large-scale, glacigenic sedimentary sequences inboth surface and subaqueous environments. This volume brings numerous state-of-the-art research contributionstogether, each relating to a different physical setting, spatialscale, process or investigative technique. The result is a diverseand interesting collection of papers by glaciologists, numericalmodellers and glacial geologists, which are all linked by the themeof investigating the relationships between the behaviour of icemasses and their resulting sedimentary sequences.

Author : Kevin T. Pickering,Richard N. Hiscott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118865422

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Deep Marine Systems by Kevin T. Pickering,Richard N. Hiscott Pdf

Deep-water (below wave base) processes, although generallyhidden from view, shape the sedimentary record of more than 65% ofthe Earth’s surface, including large parts of ancientmountain belts. This book aims to inform advanced-levelundergraduate and postgraduate students, and professional Earthscientists with interests in physical oceanography and hydrocarbonexploration and production, about many of the important physicalaspects of deep-water (mainly deep-marine) systems. The authorsconsider transport and deposition in the deep sea, trace-fossilassemblages, and facies stacking patterns as an archive of theunderlying controls on deposit architecture (e.g., seismicity,climate change, autocyclicity). Topics include modern and ancientdeep-water sedimentary environments, tectonic settings, and howbasinal and extra-basinal processes generate the typicalcharacteristics of basin slopes, submarine canyons, contouritemounds and drifts, submarine fans, basin floors and abyssalplains.

Author : Allard W. Martinius,R. Ravnås,J. A. Howell,R. J. Steel,J. P. Wonham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118920466

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From Depositional Systems to Sedimentary Successions on the Norwegian Continental Margin by Allard W. Martinius,R. Ravnås,J. A. Howell,R. J. Steel,J. P. Wonham Pdf

The Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), focus of this special publication, is a prolific hydrocarbon region and both exploration and production activity remains high to this day with a positive production outlook. A key element today and in the future is to couple technological developments to improving our understanding of specific geological situations. The theme of the publication reflects the immense efforts made by all industry operators and their academic partners on the NCS to understand in detail the structural setting, sedimentology and stratigraphy of the hydrocarbon bearing units and their source and seal. The papers cover a wide spectrum of depositional environments ranging from alluvial fans to deepwater fans, in almost every climate type from arid through humid to glacial, and in a variety of tectonic settings. Special attention is given to the integration of both analogue studies and process-based models with the insights gained from extensive subsurface datasets.

Author : Rudy Slingerland,John Warvelle Harbaugh,Kevin Furlong
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Sedimentary basins
ISBN : 0138140545

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Simulating Clastic Sedimentary Basins by Rudy Slingerland,John Warvelle Harbaugh,Kevin Furlong Pdf