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The interpretation of stratigraphic sequences is essential for understanding of the earth’s history and for the discovery and exploitation of many resources, such as petroleum. Geologists are interested in describing how some property, such as porosity, fossil content, or elemental abundance, changes within stratigraphic sections. In addition, they are concerned with comparing these changes among a series of sections, for the purposes of correlation or determining facies and depositional environment. The distributions of properties within and among sections are complex and vary over many scales of measurement.
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Plotnick, R.E., Prestegaard, K.L. (1995). Fractal and Multifractal Models and Methods in Stratigraphy. In: Barton, C.C., La Pointe, P.R. (eds) Fractals in Petroleum Geology and Earth Processes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1815-0_5
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