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StraboTools: A Mobile App for Quantifying Fabric in Geology
dc.contributor.author | Glazner, Allen F. | |
dc.contributor.author | Walker, J. Douglas | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-21T20:45:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-21T20:45:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-08 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Glazner, A.F.; Walker, J.D.; StraboTools: A Mobile App for Quantifying Fabric in Geology. GSA Today, v. 30, https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG454A.1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/33562 | |
dc.description.abstract | Quantification of field observations is an essential step in making them reproducible and shareable, but field geologists have few tools for quantifying field observations of important features such as foliation intensity, crystal alignment, vesicle elongation, joint intensity, and mineral proportions. Here we describe a mobile app, StraboTools, which offers two ways to rapidly and objectively quantify these variables. The edge fabric tool examines grayscale gradients in a photograph and summarizes them with the edge fabric ellipse. For deformation of a homogeneous material with passive markers, this ellipse tracks the strain ellipse. Edge fabric ellipses can be determined on the outcrop and make quick work (5 seconds) of formerly time-consuming and subjective strain-analysis tasks (e.g., Fry and Rf /Φ analysis). They are remarkably sensitive to subtle deformations that are difficult to see by eye. The color index tool determines the proportion of any component in the photograph whose grayscale level can be isolated (e.g., dark minerals in a granitic rock, feldspar phenocrysts in a lava, or blue epoxy in a thin section). Estimating proportions by eye has poor precision and accuracy; the color index tool is both accurate and precise if a suitable rock face is available. These tools can be used with photomicrographs and aerial photographs as well as in the field. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Geological Society of America | en_US |
dc.rights | © The Geological Society of America, 2020. CC-BY-NC. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.title | StraboTools: A Mobile App for Quantifying Fabric in Geology | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Walker, J. Douglas | |
kusw.kudepartment | Geology | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1130/GSATG454A.1 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |
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