ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection) satellite imagery is useful in assisting lithologic mapping and, however, its effectiveness is yet to be evaluated for lithologic complex such as tectonic mélange. The Mugagangri Group (MG), the signature unit of the Bangong-Nujiang suture zone (BNSZ), Tibet and consisting of ophiolitic mélanges, was previously mapped as a single unit ...

The ground-water system beneath the Amargosa Desert in southern Nevada and southeastern California (Figure 1) is under increasing demands from agricultural, commercial, and residential users. The Cenozoic basin fill in the Amargosa Desert basin has great lithologic diversity and state of consolidation, and is thus hydrogeologically heterogeneous. However the configuration and continuity of basi...

Lithologic mapping in the hostile and inaccessible mountainous region like the Himalaya and Tibet has frequently been a great challenge for geologists. The remote sensing techniques should be a potential player in lithologic mapping and structural analysis in these mountainous regions. With the successful development of minrealogic indices, e.g., Quartz Index (QI), Carbonate Index (CI), Mafic I...

This paper develops a procedure for mapping Martian lithologic units, using the OMEGA/Mars Express data. The procedure consists of correcting Martian atmospheric absorptions based on an empirical transmission function method, noise-free principle components analysis based on a minimum noise fraction (MNF) method, lithologic unit delineation, and spectral matching of the units to spectral librar...

To first order, seismic data provides the geologist and the geophysicist with information on the geometrical relationships between subsurface lithologic boundaries. Generally, this spatial information is used to construct conceptual geologic and process models with which to explain the origins of stratigraphic features. From such models we infer lithologic content. Various methods (e.g. AVO, Co...

The relationship between elastic wave velocities and water saturation in a water/gas reservoir depends strongly on whether saturation is heterogeneous (patchy) or homogeneous. Heterogeneity in saturation may result from lithologic heterogeneity because under conditions of capillary equilibrium, different lithologies within a reservoir can have different saturations, depending on their porositie...

Map of geological cross section is the most intuitive expression strata in vertical direction. Realizing automatic filling lithologic patterns and reflecting changes stratum curvature are important contents map drawing. The traditional pattern method can not show change rock dip angle. To solve this problem, an algorithm drawing based on arc fitting proposed. By analyzing mathematical relations...

Introduction: Since January 2004, OMEGA/Mars Express data has revealed a diverse and complex Martian surface mineralogy [1]. The important findings, together with Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES), Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), and insitu observations from Mars Exploration Rovers, include but not limited to (1) hydrated sulfates [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]; (2) iron oxides and oxhydroxi...

The ultraviolet-visible camera on the Clementine spacecraft obtained high-spatial resolution images of the moon in five spectral channels. Impact craters mapped with these multispectral images show a scale of lithologic diversity that varies with crater size and target stratigraphy. Prominent lithologic variations (feldspathic versus basaltic) occur within the south wall of Copernicus (93 kilom...

The study area is located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, among the municipalities of Pedro Leopoldo, Matozinhos, and Sete Lagoas, with Velhas River as the eastern boundary. It is located in the São Francisco Craton, where carbonated argillo-arenaceous sediments are emplaced giving origin to the Bambuí Group, in the São Francisco Basin. Despite the geological knowledge previously develope...