The Stanford Geostatistical Modeling Software (SGeMS) is an open-source computer package for solving problems involving spatially related variables. It provides geostatistics practitioners with a ...user-friendly interface, an interactive 3-D visualization, and a wide selection of algorithms. This practical book provides a step-by-step guide to using SGeMS algorithms. It explains the underlying theory, demonstrates their implementation, discusses their potential limitations, and helps the user make an informed decision about the choice of one algorithm over another. Users can complete complex tasks using the embedded scripting language, and new algorithms can be developed and integrated through the SGeMS plug-in mechanism. SGeMS was the first software to provide algorithms for multiple-point statistics, and the book presents a discussion of the corresponding theory and applications. Incorporating the full SGeMS software (now available from www.cambridge.org/9781107403246), this book is a useful user-guide for Earth Science graduates and researchers, as well as practitioners of environmental mining and petroleum engineering.
An illuminating account of the interplay between
science, religion, and nature in nineteenth-century landscape
painting Geology was in vogue in nineteenth-century
America. People crowded lecture ...halls to hear geologists speak, and
parlor mineral cabinets signaled social respectability and
intellectual engagement. This was also the heyday of the Hudson
River School, and many prominent landscape painters avidly studied
geology. Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Frederic Church, John F.
Kensett, William Stanley Haseltine, Thomas Moran, and other artists
read scientific texts, participated in geological surveys, and
carried rock hammers into the field to collect fossils and mineral
specimens. As they crafted their paintings, these artists drew on
their geological knowledge to shape new vocabularies of landscape
elements resonant with moral, spiritual, and intellectual ideas.
Rebecca Bedell contributes to current debates about the
relationship among art, science, and religion by exploring this
phenomenon. She shows that at a time when many geologists sought to
disentangle their science from religion, American artists generally
sidestepped the era's more materialist science, particularly
Darwinism. They favored a conservative, Christianized geology that
promoted scientific study as a way to understand God. Their art was
both shaped by and sought to preserve this threatened version of
the science. And, through their art, they advanced consequential
social developments, including westward expansion, scenic tourism,
the emergence of a therapeutic culture, and the creation of a
coherent and cohesive national identity. This major study of the
Hudson River School offers an unprecedented account of the role of
geology in nineteenth-century landscape painting. It yields fresh
insights into some of the most influential works of American art
and enriches our understanding of the relationship between art and
nature, and between science and religion, in the nineteenth
century. It will draw a broad audience of art historians,
Americanists, historians of science, and readers interested in the
American natural landscape.
A reference volume on the geology of North Africa, this volume deals with Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. In great detail the geology, tectonic elements, the geology of the Pan-African ...Shield, the Phanerozoic geological evolution and most of the lithostratigrahpic units of the five countries are described. Moreover, the petroleum geolog
The 6 February 2023, Mw 7.8 Pazarcık earthquake in the Turkey-Syria border region raises the question of whether such a large earthquake could have been foreseen, as well as what is the maximum ...possible magnitude (Mmax) of earthquakes on the East Anatolian Fault (EAF) system and on continental transform faults in general. To answer such questions, knowledge of past earthquakes and of their causative faults is necessary. Here, we integrate data from historical seismology, paleoseismology, archeoseismology, and remote sensing to identify the likely source faults of fourteen Mw ≥ 7 earthquakes between 1000 CE and the present in the region. We find that the 2023 Pazarcık earthquake could have been foreseen in terms of location (the EAF) and timing (an earthquake along this fault was if anything overdue), but not magnitude. We hypothesize that the maximum earthquake magnitude for the EAF is in fact 8.2, that is, a single end-to-end rupture of the entire fault, and that the 2023 Pazarcık earthquake did not reach Mmax by a fortuitous combination of circumstances. We conclude that such unusually large events are hard to model in terms of recurrence intervals, and that seismic hazard assessment along continental transforms cannot be done on individual fault systems but must include neighboring systems as well, because they are not kinematically independent at any time scale.
Earthquake and Volcano Deformationis the first textbook to present the mechanical models of earthquake and volcanic processes, emphasizing earth-surface deformations that can be compared with ...observations from Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, Interferometric Radar (InSAR), and borehole strain- and tiltmeters. Paul Segall provides the physical and mathematical fundamentals for the models used to interpret deformation measurements near active faults and volcanic centers.
Segall highlights analytical methods of continuum mechanics applied to problems of active crustal deformation. Topics include elastic dislocation theory in homogeneous and layered half-spaces, crack models of faults and planar intrusions, elastic fields due to pressurized spherical and ellipsoidal magma chambers, time-dependent deformation resulting from faulting in an elastic layer overlying a viscoelastic half-space and related earthquake cycle models, poroelastic effects due to faulting and magma chamber inflation in a fluid-saturated crust, and the effects of gravity on deformation. He also explains changes in the gravitational field due to faulting and magmatic intrusion, effects of irregular surface topography and earth curvature, and modern concepts in rate- and state-dependent fault friction. This textbook presents sample calculations and compares model predictions against field data from seismic and volcanic settings from around the world.
Earthquake and Volcano Deformationrequires working knowledge of stress and strain, and advanced calculus. It is appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in geophysics, geology, and engineering.
Professors: A supplementary Instructor's Manual is available for this book. It is restricted to teachers using the text in courses. For information on how to obtain a copy, refer to: http://press.princeton.edu/class_use/solutions.html
