Lacustrine shale reservoirs present intricate attributes such as the prevalence of lamination, rapid sedimentary phase transitions, and pronounced heterogeneity. These factors introduce substantial challenges in analyzing and comprehending reservoir characteristics. Thin-section imaging offers a direct medium to observe these traits, yet the intrinsic compromise between image resolution and fie…
The Revell batholith is located within the Western Wabigoon terrane of the Superior Province, Northwestern Ontario, Canada, and is a potential site for a deep geological repository (DGR). This batholith is considered to have favourable geoscientific characteristics for hosting a DGR, including a sufficient volume of relatively homogenous rock. The subsurface geometry of the batholith plays an i…
The Tikhonov regularization parameter is a key parameter controlling the smoothness degree and oscillations of a regularized unknown solution. Usual methods to determine a proper parameter (L-curve or the discrepancy principle, for example) are not readily applicable to the evaluation of regularized derivatives, since this formulation does not make explicit a set of model parameters that are ne…
3D geologic modeling and mapping often relies on gravity modeling to identify key geologic structures, such as basin depth, fault offset, or fault dip. Such gravity models generally assume either homogeneous or spatially uncorrelated densities within modeled rock bodies and overlying sediments, with average densities typically derived from surface and drill-hole sampling. The noise contributed …
Recently, workflow management platforms are gaining more attention in the artificial intelligence (AI) community. Traditionally, researchers self-managed their workflows in a manual and tedious way that heavily relies on their memory. Due to the complexity and unpredictability of AI models, they often struggled to track and manage all the data, steps, and history of the workflow. AI workflows a…
Plurigaussian simulation is widely used to model geological facies in geosciences and is predominantly applied in mineral deposits and petroleum reservoirs exploration. GeoSim package builds geostatistical models of categorical regionalized variables via conditional or unconditional Plurigaussian simulation and co-simulation. Co-simulation between Gaussian Random Fields representing the geologi…
Elucidating the tectonic setting of unknown rock samples has long attracted the interest of not only igneous petrologists but also a wide range of geoscientists. Recently, attempts have been made to use machine learning to discriminate the tectonic setting of igneous rocks. However, few studies have designed methods that are applicable to altered rocks. This study proposes a novel approach that…
High-resolution subsurface marine mapping tools, including chirp and 3D seismic, enable the reconstruction of ancient landscapes that have been buried and subsequently submerged by marine transgression. However, the established methods for paleotopographic reconstruction require time consuming field and data interpretation efforts. Here we present a novel methodology using machine learning to e…
Accurately modeling highly heterogenous aquifers is one of the big challenges in hydrogeology. There is a pressing need to develop new methods that transform high-resolution data into hydrogeological parameters representative of such aquifers. We use random forest-based machine learning to predict the distribution of hydrostratigraphic units and hydraulic conductivity (K) at a regional scale. W…
The delineating of bedrock from sediment is one of the most important phases in the fundamental process of regional bedrock identification and mapping, and it is usually manually performed using high-resolution optical remote-sensing images or Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data. This task, although straightforward, is time consuming and requires extensive and specialized labor. We contrib…