Geostatistics Wollongong' 96 - Volume 2 (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)

In diamond alluvial deposits, the information about the spatial distribution of stone size is of crucial importance for the quantitative characterisation of the different areas of the deposit. In fact, the value of the diamond reserves depends strongly on the distribution of stone sizes: between two areas with the same grade, the most valuable is the one with larger stones. The geological genesis of the mineralization, related with the transport and deposition of stones in trapsites, can create separated spatial areas, corresponding to different stone size. To characterise these distinct areas, the non smooth transitions between them should be accounted for, in the estimation of internal properties. An extended version of zonal control of geostatistical estimation (Soares et ai, 1995) proposed in this paper, aims to characterising the classes of size histogram for each geological unit, avoiding the smooth effect. For this purpose the morphology of each geological unit is obtained by using two distinct criteria: i) first, the points of each unit are classified according to the local and global probabilities of belonging to each unit (Soares, 1992); ii) in a second classification, the optimization technique of Simulated Annealing is used to rearrange the pre-classified points in order to impose, in the final morphological maps, the spatial variability of experimental samples (Goovaerts, 1994). A case study of a diamond alluvial deposit with two geological units with distinct stone size histograms is presented.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics, 8
Release date:	April 1997
First published:	1997
Editors:	E.Y. Baafi • N.A. Schofield
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	665
Edition:	1997 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-4496-4
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Mathematics for scientists & engineers Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > General
LSN:	0-7923-4496-0
Barcode:	9780792344964

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