Application of expert systems techniques for sedimentary basin analysis
Conference
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· AAPG (Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol.) Bull.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5944162
The US Geological Survey is currently involved in a research program to explore the feasibility of applying expert systems and knowledge acquisition techniques (specialties in the field of artificial intelligence) to the design and construction of a global system of sedimentary basin analysis. The first phase of a comprehensive expert systems approach includes the design and integration of regional geologic basin models and detailed basin analysis techniques into a computer system capable of incorporating large data files and graphic input and output. This basin analysis program also will access an integrated computer satellite system that will provide a suite of resource assessment methods used to estimate the remaining undiscovered resources of a variety of energy and mineral commodities whose origins are within sedimentary basins. The primary objective in this first phase of the investigation is to design for the microcomputer a prototype expert system that will help the geologist to understand and to reconstruct the geologic evolution of a sedimentary basin and ultimately to assess its energy and mineral resources. The basic strategy uses expert systems techniques to design and develop a basin analysis program emphasizing the evolution of a sedimentary basin through the documentation of its major components, as expressed by its stratigraphy, structural geology, and sedimentology. Previous work by the author on the design of sedimentary basin models, as a part of the muPETROL program that uses expert systems techniques for classifying world basins, is incorporated into the BASIN ANALYSIS EXPERT SYSTEMS PROGRAM (BA/ESP). This work is the first stage in analyzing the regional geologic framework and tectonic history and is preliminary to the detailed sedimentary basin analysis.
- Research Organization:
- Geological Survey, Reston, VA
- OSTI ID:
- 5944162
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-870606-
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: AAPG (Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol.) Bull.; (United States) Journal Volume: 71:5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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