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This book focuses on two methods for simulating facies and lithotypes: truncated gaussian (Matheron et al. 1987) and plurigaussian simulations (Galli et al. 1994). The first method was developed in the late 1980s for simulating the lithotypes found in oil reservoirs because it makes much more sense to simulate the geometry and internal architecture of the reservoir first, then generate suitable values of porosity and permeability once the lithotype is known. These simulations were designed for reservoirs where the lithotypes occur in a sequential order; for example, when sandstone is followed by shaly sandstone then shale. Plurigaussian simulations are a natural extension of these. They were designed to produce a much wider range of patterns and to allow for more complicated types of contacts between facies.

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  1. Cerna Mines-Paristech, 60 boulevard Saint Michel, 75272, Paris, France

    Margaret Armstrong & Alain Galli

  2. Centre de Géosciences, Mines-Paristech, 35 rue St. Honoré, 77305, Fontainebleau, France

    Hélène Beucher, Gaëlle Le Loc’h & Didier Renard

  3. IFP Energies Nouvelles, 1-4 avenue de Bois Préau, 92852, Rueil-Malmaison, France

    Brigitte Doligez & Rémi Eschard

  4. Geovariances, 49 bis avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 77212, Avon, France

    François Geffroy

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Armstrong, M. et al. (2011). Introduction. In: Plurigaussian Simulations in Geosciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19607-2_1

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