Fractals in Petroleum Geology and Earth Processes

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
The Statistics of Natural Resources and the Law of Pareto....Pages 1-12
The Fractal Size and Spatial Distribution of Hydrocarbon Accumulations....Pages 13-34
Estimation of Undiscovered Hydrocarbon Potential through Fractal Geometry....Pages 35-57
Fractals and the Pareto Distribution Applied to Petroleum Accumulation-Size Distributions....Pages 59-72
Fractal and Multifractal Models and Methods in Stratigraphy....Pages 73-96
On the Scale Independent Shape of Prograding Stratigraphic Units....Pages 97-112
New Models Require New Data....Pages 113-126
Erosional Development of the Ethiopian Plateau of Northeast Africa from a Fractal Analysis of Topography....Pages 127-142
Hierarchical Cascades and the Single Fracture....Pages 143-178
Fractal Patterns in Porous Media Flow....Pages 179-226
Diffusion-limited Aggregation in the Earth Sciences....Pages 227-261
Creating Reservoir Simulations with Fractal Characteristics....Pages 263-278
Vertical versus Horizontal Well Log Variability and Application to Fractal Reservoir Modeling....Pages 279-293
Fractals and Exploration Geophysics....Pages 295-314
Back Matter....Pages 315-317