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By J. Thomas Hanley, J. T. Hanley, D. F. Merriam

The improvement and usage of microcomputers is common and quick in all medical disciplines, geology being no exception. Microcomputers have gotten ubiquitous and essential in examine and instructing in addition to within the advertisement region. The purposes which are to be had to the geologic neighborhood at the present time are more and more dynamic and complicated, even if up to now software program has been the restricting issue. This quantity offers an exceptional resource of software program and ideas on purposes. Papers conceal a variety of matters either in geology and computing device technology. The purposes variety from reconstructing fossil shells to reconstructing panorama terrains, protecting themes resembling professional platforms, simulations, database building and information research and reveal

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Applied software is used to convert data to traditional geologic tools which the geoscientist can interpret to draw conclusions pertinent to the study. Geologic cross sections are plotted using bar-graph software. Trends in water quality and watertable level are plotted using line-graph software. Piezometric surface and stratigraphie surfaces are plotted by contouring programs. Finally, a wordprocessing program is used to develop and edit preliminary drafts of report text. DATA TRANSFORMATION Rationale and Modes of Data Transformation The process of transforming data requires literally that the data change form.

He/she will have determined the initial format, the format to which the data will be transformed and the calculations required to perform the transformation. The following are methods for transforming several types of data generated in the field during hydrogeologic investigations at waste-disposal sites. Piezometric Data These data are used to determine the direction of groundwater movement, both laterally and vertically, in the aquifer under investigation. The data points are measurements of depth to watertable in monitor wells, measured from a surveyed reference point, usually the top-of-well casing.

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