The discipline of reservior characterization is complex, comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and exciting. It promise to incrase in usage over time as it becomes necessary to extract more hydrocarbons from existing reservoirs. It also promise many careers for young people entering the petroleum industry, and for more experienced individuals seeking to…
The book is necessarily an introduction rather than a treatise. The subject is too new and too unformed to justify a more comprehensive treatment. We have tried to draw its main outlines for the use of those who wish to understand its general bearings, and we hope that our statement may even be of some service to those who wish to make its acquainta…
The sustainable development of minerals, which are non-renewable resources, is a major challenge in today's world. in this regard the true definition of 'sustainability' is a debating point in itself; can such a concept exist with respect to non-renewable resources? Perhaps the ideal sustainability model is one that minimizes negative environmental …
The revolution in the earth sciences consequent on the formulation of the plate or global tectonic hypotesis some 14 years ago is familiar to all concerned with the earth sciences. The effects of this revolution on our understanding of the relationship of ore body genesis and distribution to major tectonic settings can be seen from the voluminous li…
The aim of this book is to give an account of the salient features of earth history in a manner siuted to persons having no previous aquaintance with the subject. Except in the introductory chapters, which deal with general principles and with the origin of the earth, attention is directed primarily to the nature of physical conditions and the recor…
This book is an outgrowth of my interest in the chemistry of sedimentary rocks. In teaching geochemistry, I realized that the example for many chemical processes are drawn from the study of ore deposits. Consequently, we initiated a course at The University of Cincinnati entitled "Sedimentary Ore Deposits," which server as the final quarter course f…
Anyone who compares the present throughly revised and enlarged edition of this book with the three previous ones, the first of which was published in 1962, may well ask wheter the principles of applied geophysics have become more numerous during the last 25 years or so. Such is not the case and the much larger size of the present edition is due to t…