Computer applications in the earth sciences, an update of the 70s / Компьютерные приложения в науках о Земле, обновленией 70-х годов

In looking back at the 1970's, the decade may prove to be a crucial one in the development of quantitative geology. After quantification had lain fallow and essentially undeveloped for 120 years, introduction of the computer in the 1950's revived interest and fostered advances in the subject. Developments continued through the 1960's at a rapid pace and the state-of-the-art was reported on in the proceedings of an international symposium held at the University of Kansas in June 1969 (Merriam, 1969). <...>