Log analysts vs Paleontologists

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     Electric log correlations are no substitute for paleontological 
     correlations.  Each provides distinctly different products.  Log 
     analysts or more commonly now, petrophysicists, provide information 
     gleaned from remote sensing techniques as the drill bit penetrates the 
     rocks.  In contrast, paleontologists work in the fourth dimension 
     (time) and in paleoenvironmental determinations.  Why, we as 
     paleontologists, have allowed log analysis to substitute for 
     paleontological (biostratigraphic) analysis is beyond me, but that is 
     commonly what the decision makers believe and act on.  That is an 
     important marketing point for all of us in this environment.