Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
Authors: Desmond FitzGerald*
Date Published: September 2019
Number of Pages: 5
Abstract:
Integration of geology and geophysics thinking requires a common earth model, that accommodates, with errors, all the features from the geophysics interpretation products, topological rules from geology, field mapping and drill logs, and the link between the two via physical rock property estimates. Automation of intelligent search, inference engines to this problem involves 200+ individual processes, to yield a family of plausible models. The true limiting factor is managing technical complexity and communicating to the geoscience team, not compute power.