Sketching cross sections with a portable microcomputer
Abstract
Computer applications have been carried to the field long ago by geophysicists and their dog houses. The advent of inexpensive battery-powered microcomputers promises to allow the field geologist to participate in this application. The field geologist may record data directly onto a computer-readable medium and calculate statistics or plot a cross section. A program for routine plotting of cross sections in the field has been developed and field-tested. The program proved to be useful to 30 computer-illiterate geologists on a 6-week mapping project in New Mexico. The program allows the user to control vertical exaggeration and displays the correct apparent dip along the chosen line of section. Cubic-spline interpolation is used to plot both topography and folded bedding planes. The program executes in Pascal on an Apple IIc in a few seconds.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5783843
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-850322-
Journal ID: CODEN: AAPGB
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Journal Name:
- Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 69:2; Conference: American Association of Petroleum Geologists annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 25 Mar 1985
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 02 PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER CODES; CROSS SECTIONS; MICROPROCESSORS; COMPUTERS; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; GEOLOGY; MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; 020200* - Petroleum- Reserves, Geology, & Exploration
Citation Formats
Kimberley, M M. Sketching cross sections with a portable microcomputer. United States: N. p., 1985.
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Kimberley, M M. Sketching cross sections with a portable microcomputer. United States.
Kimberley, M M. 1985.
"Sketching cross sections with a portable microcomputer". United States.
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title = {Sketching cross sections with a portable microcomputer},
author = {Kimberley, M M},
abstractNote = {Computer applications have been carried to the field long ago by geophysicists and their dog houses. The advent of inexpensive battery-powered microcomputers promises to allow the field geologist to participate in this application. The field geologist may record data directly onto a computer-readable medium and calculate statistics or plot a cross section. A program for routine plotting of cross sections in the field has been developed and field-tested. The program proved to be useful to 30 computer-illiterate geologists on a 6-week mapping project in New Mexico. The program allows the user to control vertical exaggeration and displays the correct apparent dip along the chosen line of section. Cubic-spline interpolation is used to plot both topography and folded bedding planes. The program executes in Pascal on an Apple IIc in a few seconds.},
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journal = {Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States)},
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year = {Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1985},
month = {Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1985}
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