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- Title: Geologic Modeling and Mapping
- Author: Andrea Forster and Daniel F. Merriam
- Publisher: Geo Forschungs Zentrum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
- Pages: 338
This volume is a compendium of papers on the subject, as noted in the book title, of modeling and mapping. They were presented at the 25th Anniversary meeting of the International Association for Mathematical Geology (IAMG) at Praha (Prague), Czech Republic in October of 1993. The Association, founded at the International Geological Congress (IGC) in Prague in 1968, returned to its origins for its Silver Anniversary celebration. All in all 146 papers by 276 authors were offered for the 165 attendees at the 3-day meeting convened in the Hotel Krystal. It was a time for remembrance and for future prognostication.
The selected papers in Geologic Modeling and Mapping comprise a broad range of powerful techniques used nowadays in the earth sciences. Modeling stands for reconstruction of geological features, such as subsurface structure, in space and time, as well as for simulation of geological processes both providing scenarios of geologic events and how these events might have occurred. Mapping stands for spatial analysis of data, a topic that always has been an extremely important part of the earth sciences. Because both modeling and mapping are used widely in conjunction, the book title should reflect the close relation of the subjects rather than a division.
Here, we bring together a collection of papers that hopefully contribute to growing amount of knowledge on these techniques. All of the authors are experts in their field so the reader will have authoritative papers on the various aspects of the subject. Some time has elapsed since the Prague meeting, time used by the contributors of the book to incorporate additional and new ideas into their offerings. We want to thank all the authors for patience and help in preparing the book. We also thank the many reviewers who through their efforts improved the content and presentation of the papers. LeaAnn Davidson of the Kansas Geological Survey helped to prepare the final layout and her assistance is greatly appreciated. Cora Cowan, also of the Geological Survey, assisted with preparation of the index.