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Complex spatial geologic patterns may be regarded as realizations of random processes. The estimated parameters of such processes serve as convenient summary characteristics of the observed geologic patterns, and provide a basis for their classification and comparison. The statistical properties of the estimates of process parameters, e.g., prevalence and patchiness, are related to the rate and method of sampling, as well as to the model of the process itself. The paper contains an investigation of these relationships. The scale of phenomena to which these investigations apply range from the texture of rock thin sections to satellite surface imagery.
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Switzer, P. (1976). Applications of Random Process Models to the Description of Spatial Distributions of Qualitative Geologic Variables. In: Merriam, D.F. (eds) Random Processes in Geology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66146-4_10
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