Geostatistics A Colloquium
Although statistics have been used by geologists for many years, only recently has the subject received the attention needed and deserved. Geologists and other earth scientists have a use for summary statistics of large data bases, knowledge of frequency
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A Volume in Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences
Although geologists have used statistical analysis in their research for many years, only recently has geostatistics, as a creative tool in the geosciences, received the attention it deserves. Even now many geologists are unaware of the tremendous power statistical methods offer. Today earth scientists can use summary statistics for large data bases, frequency distributions, sampling designs and problems, and applications of stochastic models and use them in dynamic ways for research and developm·ent. Providing the foundation for a new discipline, this volume explores some assumptions, limitations, and applications of statistical geology and geostatistics. The editor has been a pioneer in organizing interdisciplinary colloquia and research; his previous volume Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences, the first volume in this series, examines the use of computers in the various branches of geoscience and provides the necessary transition for the application in the new field of geostatistics. Together, these volumes establish a clearly defined relationship between quantitative methods and the earth sciences, thus providing guidance for future research. By placing a continuation orderfor books in this series, the geoscientist is assured delivery of this and other volumes immediately upon publication. Proceedings of a Colloquium on Geostatistics held at The University of Kansas, Lawrence, June 7-9, 1970. Sponsored by the Kansas Geological Survey, International Association for Mathematical Geology, and University of Kansas ExtenSion.
computer applications in the earth sciences
GEOSTATISTICS a colloquium
COMPUTFR APPLICATIONS IN THE EARTH SCIENCES A series
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by Daniel F. Merriam
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GEOSTATISTICS a colloquium Proceedings of a Colloquium on Geostatistics held on campus at The University of Kansas, Lawrence on 7-9 June 1970. Sponsored by the Kansas Geological Survey, International Association for Mathematical Geology, and University of Kansas Extension.
edited by Daniel F. Merriam Chief of Geologic Research Kansas Geological Survey, The University of Kansas
g:>PLENUM PRESS • NEW YORK-LONDON • 1970
Lib rary of Congress Catalog Card Nu.mber 71-142040 ISBN 978·1·4615-7105·6 00110.1007/978-1-4615· 7103-2
ISBN 978-1-4615·7103·2 (eBook)
© 1970 Plenum Press, New York Softcover n!pr!nt of me hardcover lst edition 1970 A Division of Plenum Publishing Corponuion 227 West 17t h Street, Ne w York, N. Y. 10011 United Kingdom edition published by Plenum Press, London A Divisio n o f Plen um Publishing Company, Ltd. Do nington Ho use, 30 Norfo lk Street , Londo n W.C. 2, England All righLS resen'ed No pan of this pub lica tio n may be reproduced in any form without written penniuion h om the pub lisher
To all geostatisticians and statistical geologists
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PREFACE
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