This volume is a compendium of papers on the subject, as noted in the
book title, of modeling and mapping. They were presented at the 25th
Anniversary meeting of the International Association for Mathematical
Geology (IAMG) at Praha (Prague), Czech Republic in October of 1993. The
Association, founded at the International Geological Congress (IGC) in
Prague in 1968, returned to its origins for its Silver Anniversary
celebration. All in all 146 papers by 276 authors were offered for the
165 attendees at the 3-day meeting convened in the Hotel Krystal. It was
a time for remembrance and for future prognostication. The selected
papers in Geologic Modeling and Mapping comprise a broad range of
powerful techniques used nowadays in the earth sciences. Modeling stands
for reconstruction of geological features, such as subsurface structure,
in space and time, as well as for simulation of geological processes
both providing scenarios of geologic events and how these events might
have occurred. Mapping stands for spatial analysis of data, a topic that
always has been an extremely important part of the earth sciences.
Because both modeling and mapping are used widely in conjunction, the
book title should reflect the close relation of the subjects rather than
a division. Here, we bring together a collection of papers that
hopefully contribute to the growing amount of knowledge on these
techniques.