Machine Learning Interpretation of Conventional Well Logs in Crystalline Rocks

The identification of lithologies is a crucial task in continental scientific drilling research. In fact, in complex geological situations such as crystalline rocks, more complex nonlinear functional behaviors exist in well log interpretation/classification purposes; thus posing challenges in accurate identification of lithology using geophysical log data in the context of crystalline rocks. The aim of this work is to explore the capability of k-nearest neighbors classifier and to demonstrate its performance in comparison with other classifiers in the context of crystalline rocks. The results show that best classifier was neural network followed by support vector machine and k-nearest neighbors. These intelligence machine learning methods appear to be promising in recognizing lithology and can be a very useful tool to facilitate the task of geophysicists allowing them to quickly get the nature of all the geological units during exploration phase.