Thermal maturation modeling using spreadsheets
Maturity-modeling using spreadsheets had significant advantages: Minimal programming skills are needed to use, modify or understand commercially available spreadsheets. They are user-friendly, fast and provide presentably tabulated output. Input, output, file storage, graphics, combining input or output tables with other files, and manipulating data within the spreadsheet can all be handled with two or three commands, especially when macros are used. Standard spreadsheet software is readily attainable for desktop computers. Intermediate calculations in such spreadsheet programs are stored in appropriate matrices in a readable format each time the spreadsheet is evaluated and can be saved and printed out as necessary. This is useful because certain types of basin evaluation projects sometimes require different combinations of the output. The intermediate calculations also provide the users with more access to how the calculations are being carried out, which usually makes them more aware of the limitations or assumptions implicit in a particular method. Despite their cumbersome construction for repetitively evaluating a series of long equations, once a spreadsheet is prepared and tested, new input data can be written over existing data and filed under a different name. Thus there is almost no preparation to re-use an existing worksheet.
- OSTI ID:
- 6976787
- Journal Information:
- Geobyte; (USA), Journal Name: Geobyte; (USA) Vol. 5:1; ISSN 0885-6362; ISSN GEOBE
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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