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X. WORKING RECOMMANDATIONS

- Always work in THREE DIMENSIONS -make block-diagrams rather than maps or

sections alone.

- Take into account the "FOURTH DIMENSION" : TIME. Try to unveil the
timing of the successive events, do not jam all deformations into one
only (recent) period of deformations. Always distinguish what is old
(INHERITENCE) and what recent movements have added or modified.

- Think REGIONAL. Most hard-to-understand "local" problems can be best

solved by replacing them into the regional context : an area one
magnitude greater. Don't hesitate comparing with next-door basins,
rifts, structures etc. similar features, even if those happen to be
geographically remote.

- Use ALL METHODS possible, recent or old, expensive or "cheap". Even such
methods as gravity and magnetism, refraction seismic, morphology and
-last but not least- field observations.

- READ all the relevant papers, look at all the maps, including the purely
scientific ones or those generated by the mineral industry. No infor-
mation is useless or dead information.

- Keep an eye on BIG BROTHER BASEMENT ! Try to follow it on all your

seismic profiles, even if it necessitates re-interpreting or re-
processing.

- Modelling is good, sometimes necessary and unavoidable. But ANALYSIS and

pragmatical THINKING is better or -at least- complementary. Don't fall
into the trap of over-sophisticated treatments (although they may
provide you with great intellectual satisfactions) before you have
exhausted all the available down-to-earth information (although this may
be boring). Create a large data-base and use simple programs and not the
other way around.

- Do take into account all the available information, but DO THINK INDE-
PENDENTLY "If you want to reach the source, you have to move against-
the-stream" (VOLTAIRE).

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