Slope stability is one of the most important issues in open pit mining design. The main purpose of any open pit mine design is to propose an optimal excavation configuration, considering safety, ore recovery and financial return. An accurate pit slope design which accounts for the mine geology, structural geology, rock mass properties, and hydrogeology models of the mine area, drastically enhan...

As magmas rise toward the surface, they traverse regions of the mantle and crust with which they are not in equilibrium; to the extent that time and the intimacy of their physical contact permit, the melts and country rocks will interact chemically. We have modeled aspects of these chemical interactions in terms of ion-exchange processes similar to those operating in simple chromatographic colu...

The Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) hosts a valuable deposit of polymetallic nodules. Understanding the geology this is key to its effective exploration and future mining. Interpretation satellite derived bathymetry elucidates large scale geomorphological units structural that characterize area. Main Map includes distinct plains, rises, lows abyssal hills, steps trough along parts bounding fractu...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2014.01.013 0019-1035/ 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.E.C. Scully). Jennifer E.C. Scully a,⇑, A. Yin , C.T. Russell , D.L. Buczkowski , D.A. Williams , D.T. Blewett , O. Ruesch , H. Hiesinger , L. Le Corre , C. Mercer , R.A. Yingst , W.B. Garry , R. Jaumann , T. Roatsch , F. Preusker , R.W. G...

Abstract. Parametric geological models such as implicit or kinematic provide low-dimensional, interpretable representations of 3-D structures. Combining these with geophysical data in a probabilistic joint inversion framework provides an opportunity to directly quantify uncertainty interpretations. For best results, care must be taken the intermediate step rendering parametric geology finite-re...

Geology is a complex, semantically rich domain involving the interpretation of geological maps as external visualizations. Geological maps are complex in particular because 3dimensional features must be inferred from 2-dimensional representations depicted by differing line types and weights. Modeling building, as an internal mental activity, is also required in order to achieve deep understandi...

The standard account of the reasoning process within geology views it as lacking a distinctive methodology of its own. Rather, geology is described as a derivative science, relying on the logical techniques exemplified by physics. I argue that this account is inadequate and skews our understanding of both geology and the scientific process in general. Far from simply taking up and applying the ...

This paper focusses on obtaining a better understanding of the subsurface geology Chibougamau area, in northeast Abitibi greenstone belt (Superior craton), using geophysical data collected along 128 km long traverse with rough southwest–northeast orientation. We have constructed two-dimensional (2D) models study area that are consistent newly gravity and high-resolution magnetic sets. The initi...

Modem geology was founded by James Hutton at the end of the 18th cenhuy as an observational, descriptive, qualitative, and subjective science. It was the pioneer work of Pearson (1901) and Spearman (1904) in statistics applied to agriculture, biology, medicine, and psychology, that led to the first major inroads of quantitative techniques in geology and the models they used were above all stati...