This manual was written primarily to assist undergraduate students in field training. It also offers some specialized procedures and data to advanced students and professional geologists. To keep the book a reasonable length, the more specialized materials are presented by brief descriptions, outlines, and diagrams. I have tried, however, to describ…
an introductory text canot explore all aspects of environmental concerns. here, the emphasis is on the physical constrains imposed on human activities by the geologic processes that have shaped and are still shaping our natural environment. in a real sense, these are the most basic, inescapable constrains; we canot, for instance, use aresource that …
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 distribut…
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 th…