Geo Soft
Geo Soft
Geo Soft
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREPARATIONS
STARTING GEOSOFT
CREATING A DATABASE
CREATING A MAP
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KRIGING
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CONTOURING
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HISTOGRAM ANALYSIS
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CORRELATION ANALYSIS
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SCATTER ANALYSIS
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Preparations
Before starting to work on a project, it
is necessary to create a location on the
local hard drive in which all data,
related to the project, will be stored. A
new directory can be created on the
drive, and the necessary datafiles can
be copied into that directory. It is good
practice not to work from a location on
the harddrive that contains your vital
informationmake a copy instead to
safeguard vital data.
Starting Geosoft
Double click on the icon and the
Geosoft programme window comes up,
with all but a few options dimmed out:
The following dialog box appears:
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Creating a database
Excel
Lines/Groups
Channels/Fields
Sheets
Columns
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following
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transfers
the
data
corresponding lines
to
their
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Creating a map
We will now prepare a blank base
map, which will serve as a template for
all our maps of the Oassat-Sfariates
area.
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View/Group Manager
Layer selection
Group selection
Shadow cursor buttons
Pan tool
Zoom tools:
Interactive zoom
Zoom
Shrink 50%
Last view
Redraw map
button.
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in
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Go to ChemmapPoint plotsPost
assay values
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Choose
GridMinimum
CurvatureDialog Controls
We
can
click
GridDisplay
GridColour Shaded Grid
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Kriging
Well choose the Au_recalc Channel,
type in the name of the Grid file as
Au_krg_A4.grd, and specify a
cellsize of 500m.
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Contouring
Contouring is a procedure that can be
useful for displaying trends in the data,
and for delineating anomalies. The
procedure can only be carried out
when a grid has been created.
To apply a contouring operation, we
use Mapping Contour Quick
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Now digitise the polygon, and rightclick when done. The polygon has
been created but is not automatically
shown. To load the polygon into the
map we have to go back through the
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3rd
quartile (75th percentile): The
minimum value of the highest 25 % of
the total sample population.
Lower fence: 3rd quartile-1st quartile-1st
quartile * 1.5)
Upper
fence:
3rd
quartile+(3rd quartile*1.5)
quartile-1st
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Correlation analysis
In multi-element geochemical datasets,
it is common practice to assess the
correlation of various elements.
Strongly correlated elements can be
used together, or as pathfinder
elements.
Geosoft
allows
the
calculation
of
the
correlation
coefficients, and simultaneously can
plot
the
correlation
diagrams
(scatterplots) for easy access to these
statistical parameters. We will remove
all data columns of the database, and
then load the Cu, Pb, Zn and Fe
Channels, and calculate/plot the
correlation characteristics.
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tool in Chemanalyse
analysis
Scatter
Once the symbol has been selected, we
will be prompted with the following
dialog box:
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