Earth and Planetary Sciences Geology and Geophysics

Advances in Data, Methods, Models and

Their Applications in Geoscience
Edited by Dongmei Chen, ISBN 978-953-307-737-6, 336 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters
published December 22, 2011 under CC BY 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/1133
With growing attention on global environmental and climate change, geoscience has experienced
rapid change and development in the last three decades. Many new data, methods and modeling
techniques have been developed and applied in various aspects of geoscience. The chapters
collected in this book present an excellent profile of the current state of various data, analysis
methods and modeling techniques, and demonstrate their applications from hydrology, geology
and paleogeomorphology, to geophysics, environmental and climate change. The wide range
methods and techniques covered in the book include information systems and technology, global
position system (GPS), digital sediment core image analysis, fuzzy set theory for hydrology,
spatial interpolation, spectral analysis of geophysical data, GIS-based hydrological models, high
resolution geological models, 3D sedimentology, change detection from remote sensing, etc.
Besides two comprehensive review articles, most chapters focus on in-depth studies of a
particular method or technique.
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Chapter 1 Queueing Aspects of Integrated Information and Computing
Systems in Geosciences and Natural Sciencesby Claus-Peter Rckemann
Chapter 2 Spectral Analysis of Geophysical Databy Othniel K. Likkason
Chapter 3 Quantitative Evaluation of Spatial Interpolation Models
Based on a Data-Independent Methodby Xuejun Liu, Jiapei Hu and Jinjuan Ma
Chapter 4 Integrated Geochemical and Geophysical Approach to
Mineral Prospecting A Case Study on the Basement Complex of Ilesa Area,
Nigeriaby Emmanuel Abiodun Ariyibi
Chapter 5 Regularity Analysis of Airborne Natural Gamma Ray Data
Measured in the Hoggar Area (Algeria)by Sad Gaci, Nama Zaourar, Louis Briqueu
and Mohamed Hamoudi
Chapter 6 Two-Dimensional Multifractional Brownian Motion- Based
Investigation of Heterogeneities from a Core Imageby Sad Gaci and Nama Zaourar
Chapter 7 3D Seismic Sedimentology of Nearshore Subaqueous Fans
A Case Study from Dongying Depression, Eastern Chinaby Yang Fengli, Zhao
Wenfang, Sun Zhuan, Cheng Haisheng and Peng Yunxin
Chapter 8 Mapping and Analyzing the Volcano-Petrology and Tectono-
Seismicity Characteristics Along the Syrian Rift NW the Arabian Plateby Ahmad
Bilal
Chapter 9 Water-Rock Interaction Mechanisms and Ageing Processes
in Chalkby Claudia Sorgi and Vincenzo De Gennaro
Chapter 10 New Identity of the Kimberlite Melt: Constraints from
Unaltered Diamondiferous Udachnaya East Pipe Kimberlite, Russiaby Vadim S.
Kamenetsky, Maya B. Kamenetsky and Roland Maas
Chapter 11 Next Generation Geological Modeling for Hydrocarbon
Reservoir Characterizationby M. Maucec, J.M. Yarus and R.L. Chambers
Chapter 12 Developing Sediment Yield Prediction Equations for Small
Catchments in Tanzaniaby Preksedis Marco Ndomba
Chapter 13 Suitability of SWAT Model for Sediment Yields Modelling
in the Eastern Africaby Preksedis Marco Ndomba and Ann van Griensven
Chapter 14 Fuzzy Hydrologic Model in Tropical Watershedby Aurelio
Azevedo Barreto-Neto
Chapter 15 Analysis of Rocky Desertification Monitoring Using
MODIS Data in Western Guangxi, Chinaby Yuanzhi Zhang, Jinrong Hu, Hongyan Xi,
Yuli Zhu and Dong Mei Chen
Chapter 16 Lower Eocene Crustacean Burrows (Israel) Reflect a
Change from K- to r-Type Mode of Breeding Across the K-T Boundary Clarifying
the Process of the End-Cretaceous Biological Crisisby Zeev Lewy, Michael
Dvorachek, Lydia Perelis-Grossowicz and Shimon Ilani