Statistical characterization provides quantitative tools necessary for relating complex morphology to the geological processes which form or interact with them, and a means for digitally simulating chaotic natural phenomena. Statistical analysis of sea ice topography was aimed at unraveling the sequence of geologic events that modify any one patch of sea ice through time. Quantitative characterization of crustal heterogeneity was aimed at developing appropriate statistical models of lithologic heterogeneity based on crustal exposures, and exploring through finite difference algorithms the relationship between such fields and the observed seismic wavefield. More recently I have investigated lithologic and velocity variations recorded in the KTB superdeep drill hole. A portion of the New Jersey EM1000 swath bathymetry, illuminated from the Northwest.
Contours are in meters.
Grab sample locations are in yellow. Red stars indicate proposed jack-up drilling locations. We welcome suggestions and comments.