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At the end of this paper we suggested that it might be feasible for individual geologists to use the artificial intelligence language PROLOG to build their own expert systems - in retrospect, a reflection of our own enthusiasm. There are now available, at modest cost, expert system tools that greatly simplify such an undertaking (e.g., EXSYS, or Level5).