Inversion and Geodiversity: Searching Model Space for the Answers

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 971-1010

  Lindsay, Mark ^a,b,c   Perrouty, Stéphane ^b,d   Jessell, Mark ^b,c   Ailleres, Laurent ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D modelling; Ashanti Greenstone Belt; Geodiversity; Geological constraints; Inverse methods; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; BELTS; DECISION MAKING; GEOPHYSICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; STRATIGRAPHY;

3D MODELLING; GEODIVERSITY; GEOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; GREENSTONE BELTS; INVERSE METHODS; UNCERTAINTY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84920251996     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-014-9538-x     Document Type: Article

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