This paper describes the application of a well-known Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) technique called Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluation (PROMETHEE II) to explore porphyry copper deposits. Various raster-based evidential layers involving geological, geophysical, and geochemical geo-datasets are integrated to prepare a mineral prospectivity mapping (MPM). In a...

A gravity inversion method based on the Nettleton-Parasnis technique is used to estimate near surface density in an area without exposed outcrop or where outcrop occurrences do not adequately represent the subsurface rock densities. Its accuracy, however, strongly depends on how efficiently the regional trends and very local (terrain) effects are removed from the gravity anomalies processed. Ne...

We consider a fluid flow in a rotating sphere with an unit radius. The flow is incompressible and inviscid, and covers the sphere with a constant density. This kind of flow is called a geophysical flow, since it is one of the simplest models of atmospheric flows in the earth. In practical study of geophysical flows, we are sometimes interested in a local flow in the neighborhood of a certain po...

An algorithm for the generation of non-uniform unstructured grids on ellipsoidal geometries is described. This technique is designed to generate high quality triangular and polygonal meshes appropriate for general circulation modelling on the sphere, including applications to atmospheric and ocean simulation, and numerical weather predication. Using a recently developed Frontal-Delaunay-refinem...

We outline a method of assessing the roughness of the bed beneath ice-masses, applicable to data collected in a wide variety of (glaciated) environments. Roughness at scales 410m in particular is poorly constrained and understood in glaciated systems, and regional geophysical surveys collected over the past 30 years are ideally suited to addressing this issue. We demonstrate the technique using...

Turbulent bursting events play a major role in natural systems in terms of sediment scour, transport and accretion as well as contaminant mixing and dispersion. The "bursts" were extensively studied in laboratory experiments under steady flow conditions, but rarely tested in unsteady natural flows. Herein a technique is described for the detection and analysis of turbulent events within large c...

The application of the proposed criterion to various digital geophysical records has provided satisfactory results. The method is well suited to geophysical signals because they often have a remarkable Markovian character in the broader sense, i.e. the autocovariances have values decreasing roughly exponentially as the time lags increase. Computer simulations on mathematically defined time seri...

shear and compressional wave velocities along with other petrophysical logs, are considered as upmost important data for hydrocarbon reservoirs characterization. shear wave velocity (vs) in well logging is commonly measured by some sort of dipole logging tools, which are able to acquire shear waves as well as compressional waves such as sonic scanner, dsi (dipole shear sonic imager) by schlumbe...

Statistical bounds controlling the total fluctuations in mean and variance about a basic steady 6 state solution are developed for the truncated barotropic flows over topography. Statistical ensemble predic7 tion is an important topic in weather and climate research. Here the evolution of an ensemble of trajectories 8 is considered in the statistical instability analysis and is compared and con...