Kurt,
Isocon diagrams are useful and perhaps a normalization would work, but
it may be easier to visualize the enrichment depletion diagram of
Gresens. These are generally arranged in some type of order - e.g., low
field strength to high field strength, charge, etc... Of course this is
very similar to what you are considering.
cheers
On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 02:09 AM, kurt stuewe wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have recently come across the "Isocon diagram", introduced by James
> Grant
> (1986) as an illustration of Gresen's equation and since used as a
> standard
> diagram (e.g. Hippert 1996 JSG) to illustrate mass gain or loss in
> a chosen
> rock that may be deformed or metasomatically changed.
>
> It occurs to me that the diagram seems to be overdefined.
>
> In order to plot many elements on the same diagram the element
> concentrations are
> generally randomly scaled so that the horizontal axis appears pretty
> meaningless. I started thinking that one could normalise all elements
> to 1 or
> something thus freeing the horizontal axis to plot something else (e.g.
> atomic
> radius or something other related to mobility).
>
> Am I thinking in a completely usless direction ? I am a bit nervous as
> it seems
> such a standard diagram...
>
> Pity us mere mortal beings are usually resticted with our imagination
> to 2D so
> that we have to think about things like this at all...
>
> Kurt
>
>
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