Building on Geological Models — The Vision of an Environmental Modelling Platform
…from the 2009 Three-Dimensional Geologic Mapping Workshop held by the Illinois State Geological Survey…
Holger Kessler, Diarmad Campbell, Jon Ford, Jeremy Giles, Andrew Hughes, Ian Jackson, Denis Peach, Simon Price, Hans-Georg Sobisch, Ricky Terrington, and Ben Wood
“Geological Survey Organisations (GSOs) were originally founded to produce an inventory of the earth’s resources to inform governments and support construction and primary industries. Therefore, their initial emphasis was on finding construction material, metalliferous minerals, and hydrocarbons. Throughout the 20th Century, the focus shifted towards aggregates, water, and more recently to environmental concerns such as waste, reuse of post-industrial contaminated land, climate change, and biodiversity.”
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