AN elementary textbook is much concerned with the fundamentals of a subject and these do not change with time. In this respect the second edition of our book •has been little modified. In every other it is much altered for the subject has advanced greatly since we gathered together the material for the original version. The changes have been brought about mainly by developments in …
This practical step by step guide describes the key geological field techniques needed by today's exploration geologists involved in the search for metallic mineral deposits. The techniques described are fundamentals to the collection, storage and presentation of geological data and their use to locate ore. This book explains the various tasks which the exploration geologist is asked to perform…
Manusia tercipta dari tanah, hidupnya dari tanah, dan setelah mati kembali ke dalam tanah. Tanah itu sendiri adalah lapukan mineral penyusun batuan sebagai bagian utama dari benda geologi. Hewan dan tetumbuhan yang menopang kehidupan manusia juga hidup dan berkembangbiak di tanah. Manusia primitif hidupnya ditopang oleh hewan clan tetumbuhan. Mereka menggunakan peralata…
In the usual geostatistical practice, global estimation of a deposits is made by running the estimated values obtained by kriging for each individual block in the deposits. When all blocks are identical in size it is equivalent to simply accepting the average of all the estimated values as the global estimated value. Variance of this estimator is expressed by a complicated formula. This explain…
The assumption of lognormal (parent) field size distributions has for a long time been applied to resources apprasisal and evaluation of exploration strategy by the petroleoum industry. However, frequency ditributions estimated with observed data and used to justify this hypotesis are conditional. Eximination of various observed field size distributions across basins and over time shows that su…
A feedback or validation procedure is an essential feature of petroleum resource evaluation methodology. The purpose of such a procedure is to provide assessors with a mechanism which enables them to validate input data and challenge geological interpretations. In our method, pool sizes can be estimated by rank from the pool size distribution and the number of pools of a play (Lee and Wang, 198…
This section X.1 of Bibliography 7.0 mainly contains 546 papers on the taxonomy of modern or sub-recent microfaunas and microfloras as well as papers on their distribution in Recent sediments of SE Asia. For a more extensive introduction see Van Gorsel, Lunt and Mor1y (2014, Bertia Sedimentologi 29). An understanding of modem biofacies distributions is obviously sig…
Active strike-slip tectonics and block rotations After the Middle Miocene collision of the Bangai-Sula microcontinent with East Sulawesi, the present-day • West-ward convergence of the Pacific Plate relative to the Eurasian Plate (Sundaland) is accommodated in Sulawesi by: 1. movements along major active sinistral strike-slip fault zones the NW-SE trend…