Geoscience, Remote Sensing and GIS: December 2019

Thursday 26 December 2019

Petroleum Geoscience: From Sedimentary Environments to Rock Physics

Preface

Petroleum geology is not a well-defined academic subject. It includes many different aspects of the Earth sciences which are used in petroleum exploration and production. Nearly all types of insight can in some cases be useful in petroleum exploration,but there are some disciplines that are most relevant.

Drawing Geological Structures

PREFACE

Drawing is not one of my strengths. My firs attempts at representing rock structures from the fiel on paper ended in disaster, both with regard to the graphic quality as well as the information content of the drawings. It took a long time for me to be able to draw structures halfway precisely and increase their recognition value; to use perspective; to learn to draw symbolically; and to compose larger outcrop drawings and block diagrams.

Foreword

Temperature is one of the most important physical environmental variables monitored by Earth observing remote sensing systems. Be it land surface temperature, sea surface temperature, or air temperature, temperature ranges define the boundaries of habitats on our planet. Already thousands of years ago, temperature defined where we humans can settle and survive. Which plant resources are available? What wildlife is present? Which crops can be grown?