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Progress in Geomathematics

  • Reviews the development of mathematical applications in the geosciences over the last fifty years using Prof. Agterberg’s research as an anchor and reference point

  • Presents the state of the art including resource assessment, nonlinear modeling, geostatistics and time series analysis

  • Serves as both an account of 50 years of geomathematics and as a survey of current methodology with case studies

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
  2. Introduction

    • Graeme F. Bonham-Carter, Qiuming Cheng
    Pages 1-4
  3. The Role of Frederik Pieter Agterberg in the Development of Geomathematics

    • Graeme F. Bonham-Carter, Václav Němec, Dan F. Merriam, Zhao Pengda, Qiuming Cheng
    Pages 5-21
  4. Another Look at the Chemical Relationships in the Dissolved Phase of Complex River Systems

    • A. Buccianti, J.J. Egozcue, V. Pawlowsky-Glahn
    Pages 23-37
  5. A Critical Approach to Probability Laws in Geochemistry

    • G. Mateu-Figueras, V. Pawlowsky-Glahn
    Pages 39-52
  6. Anisotropic Scaling Models of Rock Density and the Earth’s Surface Gravity Field

    • S. Lovejoy, H. Gaonac’h, D. Schertzer
    Pages 151-193
  7. Mineral Potential Modelling for the Greater Nahanni Ecosystem Using GIS Based Analytical Methods

    • J.R. Harris, D. Lemkow, C. Jefferson, D. Wright, H. Falck
    Pages 227-269
  8. Map Scale Effects on Estimating the Number of Undiscovered Mineral Deposits

    • Donald A. Singer, W. David Menzie
    Pages 271-283
  9. African Neoproterozoic Mineral Deposits and Pan African Metallogenesis

    • Christien Thiart, Maarten de Wit
    Pages 303-313
  10. On Blind Tests and Spatial Prediction Models

    • Andrea G. Fabbri, Chang-Jo Chung
    Pages 315-332
  11. Increasing Resolution in Exploration Biostratigraphy – Part I

    • F.M. Gradstein, A. Bowman, A. Lugowski, O. Hammer
    Pages 353-367
  12. Increasing Resolution in Exploration Biostratigraphy – Part II

    • A. Bowman, F.M. Gradstein, A. Lugowski, O. Hammer
    Pages 369-378

About this book

Celebrating Frits Agterberg’s half-century of publication activity in geomathematics, this volume’s 28 timely papers, written by his friends and colleagues, treat a variety of subjects of current interest, many of them also studied by Frits, including: spatial analysis in mineral resource assessment, quantitative stratigraphy, nonlinear multifractal models, compositional data analysis, time series analysis, image analysis, and geostatistics. Professor Agterberg published his first paper as a graduate student in 1958 and has since produced (and continues to publish) a steady stream of research papers on a wide variety of subjects of interest to geomathematical practitioners. Most of the papers included here address methodology and feature practical case studies, so that the book likely has broad appeal to those interested in mathematical geosciences, both to academic researchers seeking a comprehensive overview and also to practitioners of geomathematical approaches in industry.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, K1A 0E8

    Graeme Bonham-Carter

  • State Key Lab of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China

    Qiuming Cheng

  • Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada M3J1P3

    Qiuming Cheng

About the editors

Graeme Bonham-Carter, who retired from the Geological Survey of Canada, has published extensively on computer methods in the geosciences. His two textbooks "Computer Simulation in Geology" (Wiley, 1970, with John Harbaugh) and "Geographic Information Systems for Geoscientists: Modelling with GIS" (Pergamon, 1994) have been widely used and cited. He was Editor in Chief of Computers & Geosciences for 11 years.

Qiuming Cheng is Professor at York University (Toronto) and Director of State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources at China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. He has published extensively on spatial analysis, GIS, fractal and multifractal models, spatial decision support

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