Acta Geologica Hungarica
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Volume 49: Issue 2
Geologic and geostatistical evaluation of spatial variability
Author:
György Bárdossy Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1051 Budapest, Roosevelt tér 9, Hungary

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Pages:
89–101
Online Publication Date:
25 Oct 2006
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2006
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/ageol.49.2006.2.1
Keywords:
variability; ergodicity; local variograms; variography
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In this paper, first the definitions of variability and ergodicity are discussed. This is followed by an overview of variography, and the importance of sequential stochastic simulation is emphasized. The main uncertainties of variograms are discussed, followed by the methods for decreasing this uncertainty. It is stressed that additional geologic information can be obtained from variograms, even beyond the ranges of influence. Possibilities of local evaluation of the gh values and ranges of influence are presented. The main idea of the paper is that the gh values and the ranges of influence are continuous random variables. Up to now variograms were evaluated mainly for geomathematical purposes and their direct geologic evaluation was neglected. The author presents examples of such kinds of evaluation.

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