Modelling in Geology
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Modem geology was founded by James Hutton at the end of the 18th cenhuy as an observational, descriptive, qualitative, and subjective science. It was the pioneer work of Pearson (1901) and Spearman (1904) in statistics applied to agriculture, biology, medicine, and psychology, that led to the first major inroads of quantitative techniques in geology and the models they used were above all statistical (Agterberg, 1974). The period of greatest growth of quantitative methods in geology occurred after 1950 when it was discovered that both statistical and multivariate techniques could be used on the computer and could therefore be applied for the first time to the enormous quantity of geological numerical data. There are many ways of describing the modelling process itself, but as used in geology, it tends to follow the following stages (Rogerson, 1988 and 1989a,b):
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