The use of digital information in geological fields is becoming very important. Thus, informatization in geological surveys should not stagnate as a result of the level of data accumulation. The integration and sharing of distributed, multi-source, heterogeneous geological information is an open problem in geological domains. Applications and services use geological spatial data with many featu...

The Open Pit Mine Production Scheduling Problem (OPMPSP) studied in recent years is usually based on a single geological estimate of material to be excavated and processed over a number of decades. However techniques have now been developed to generate multiple stochastic geological estimates that more accurately describe the uncertain geology. While some attempts have been made to use such mul...

8 9 In order to determine the structure of the Chalk in the London Basin, a combined cognitive and 10 numerical approach to model construction was developed. A major difficultly in elucidating the 11 structure of the Chalk in the London Basin is that the Chalk is largely unexposed. The project had to 12 rely on subsurface data such as boreholes and site investigation reports. Although a high de...

Geochemical analysis of the surface material of terrestrial type planets is of fundamental importance in understanding the geological context of the planetary environment. Consequently this analysis should be performed whenever possible and indeed this has occurred on a number of previous landers. Current techniques include X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and Rutherford back-scattering of alpha partic...

Recent research into very large, regularly shaped, geological structures has shown that in the 100 kHz to 10MHz frequency range electromagnetic waveguide behaviour is observed when the material forming the structure is not too lossy (conductivity σ < 0.0001). While mode formation and modal behaviour in electromagnetic waveguides is very well understood, much of the literature describes high fre...

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Teach the Earth: The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) Portal for Geoscience Faculty (Carleton College). This portal is the gateway to thousands of pages of activities, workshops, course descriptions and more http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html [1] See the SERC site Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences for a searchable database of articles on effective learning and...

Teach the Earth: The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) Portal for Geoscience Faculty (Carleton College). This portal is the gateway to thousands of pages of activities, workshops, course descriptions and more http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html [1] See the SERC site Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences for a searchable database of articles on effective learning and...

Teach the Earth: The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) Portal for Geoscience Faculty (Carleton College). This portal is the gateway to thousands of pages of activities, workshops, course descriptions and more http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html [1] See the SERC site Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences for a searchable database of articles on effective learning and...

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) can provide crucial information on the molecular structure of organic and inorganic components and has been used extensively for chemical characterization of geological samples in the past few decades. In this paper, recent applications of FTIR in the geological sciences are reviewed. Particularly, its use in the characterization of geochemistry an...