Abstract: Building Multiple-Z Surfaces Using Conventional Gridding Technology

Gregory Kushnir

The continuous progress in computer mapping is forcing software developers to increase the complexity of the geologic environments being explored. One of the most challenging areas is multiple-Z surfaces (reverse faults, salt domes, etc.), especially when structural features have different geologic origin, size, and relationship and cannot be simplified.

This paper will illustrate the results of the methodology which permits geoscientists to build geologic surfaces and bodies of almost unlimited complexity from within conventional gridding technology, using combination of geological and geophysical methods of interpretation and interactive geometric modeling. Real geologic data are used.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90986©1994 AAPG Annual Convention, Denver, Colorado, June 12-15, 1994