Fractals in Petroleum Geology and Earth Processes

Statistics of natural resources and the law of pareto. The fractal size and spatial distribution of hydrocarbon accumulations: implications for resourse assessment and exploration strategy. Estimation of Undicovered hydrocarbon potential through fractal geometry. Fractals and the pareto distribution applied to petroleum accumulation size distributions. Fractal and multifractal models and methods and stratigraphy. On the scale indenpendent shape of prograding stratigraphic units: applications to sequence stratigraphy. New models require new data: fractal and multifractal measures of gravel bedload. Erosional development of the epithopian plateau of northeast Africa from fractal analysis of topography. Hierarchical cascades and single fracture: percolation and seismic detection. Fractals paterns in porous media flow: modeling of laboratory experiments. Diffusion-limited aggregation in the earth sciences. Creating reservoir simulations with fractasl characteristics. Vertical versus Horizontal well log variability and application to fractal reservoir modeling. Fractals and exploration geophysics: seismic deconvolution and geophysical inverse problems.