Building solid models from boreholes and user-defined cross-sections

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 547-555

  Lemon, Alan M ^a   Jones, Norman L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross sections; Horizons method; Solid modeling; Stratigraphy modeling

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; EXTRUSION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; INTERPOLATION;

GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES;

GEOLOGY;

BOREHOLE LOGGING; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 0037867721     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(03)00051-7     Document Type: Article

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