Yes Denis, but you and I didn't have a choice when we started out. I love
pencils too and once took great pride in using a proper sprung contouring
pen rather than those new fangled Rotring things.
The young scientists coming through the system are rightly much more
comfortable in the digital world, and indeed as we are so short of people we
need as the baby boomers drift off into the sunset we have to look at ways
to get more productive as well as better at it.
I have seen so many cases where error has crept in during the transcription
stage from field slip to fair copy to draft copy to final copy and all along
the way information gets lost in the paper paradigm. (of course this
shouldn't be the case - but is, as we all know). We can't integrate
geophysical remote sensed data particularly well in our field map without
digital systems. Don't forget if we'd stayed with pencils we just would not
have been able to handle the quantity of data that we routinely see in 3d
seismic without digital interpretation on workstations.
If we wait just to use digital techniques to tidy things up in lab we are
throwing away the whole potential power of taking this stuff in the field.
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/site/GSL/lang/en/page7904.html
In retrospect I would have given my eye teeth and more for the ability to
interact with the DEM, heritage data, remote sensed data, and to project
information from the stereogram into 3 space while populating the model with
my field data when I was doing serious field work.
Finally, I don't agree with your choice of a swiss hammer! :)
alan
Dr Alan Gibbs
Director
Midland Valley Exploration
144 West George Street
Glasgow
G2 2HG
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Subject: Re: Good softwares for drawing geological maps and outcrop/texture
sketches? (Toshi Shimamoto)
Hi all!
I am probably getting old, but this discussion is a bit amazing to me. As a
field geologist, I know that best tools for constructive mapping and drawing
of good maps and cross-sections are brain (what is the question), swiss
hammer, good pencils and field books, knowledge of as most as possible
various field areas...
Beside field work, the first-order use of the hand and attached pencil is
certainly well known by all geologists who have been dealing with
interpretations of seismic lines.
Softwares are indeed necessary, but just to make things in shape, in the
lab...
Denis
Le 7 avr. 2011 à 15:48, Mike Cunningham a écrit :
> Hi Toshi,
>
> You might also like to check out GOCAD SKUA (though pricey), Intrepid's
> Geomodeller, and the latest Zapparo Leapfrog 3D software packages. But
for just
> drawing maps and nothing else then Illustrator is the way to go as
mentioned in
> a previous thread.
>
> I find Lambert chews up the iPhone battery and you have to save regularly
and be
> careful not to accidently erase your observations which is very easy to
do!
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
> GOCAD SKUA: http://www.pdgm.com/products/skua.aspx
> Geomodeller:
http://www.intrepid-geophysics.com/ig/index.php?lang=EN&menu=products-3dweg
>
> Leapfrog: http://www.leapfrog3d.com/mining/
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Alan Gibbs <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thu, 7 April, 2011 6:34:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Good softwares for drawing geological maps and
outcrop/texture
> sketches? (Toshi Shimamoto)
>
> Hi Toshi,
>
> It's worth taking a look at FieldMove and Move.
>
> FieldMove is a digital mapping tool (stand alone so you don't need ArcGIS
if
> you don't have it) but the key factor is that while you are mapping in 2d
> the software will project all your data into 3d on your DEM and then with
> Move you have the capability of building this into a full 3d model and to
> use fault construction tools which may be of interest to you in your work
on
> faults and earthquakes. The 3d viewer is free and distributable with your
> models.
> FieldMove has a digital notebook where you can record, text, draw stuff
etc
> and you can also add and geo-reference field photographs. Stereographic
> analysis, well projections, integration of seismic and heritage paper era
> data in Move take you all the way from data collection through to
structural
> model building analysis and interpretation of alternative scenarios.
>
> Details on the website:
>
> http://www.mve.com/software
>
> Software is free to universities for teaching and research and there is a
> inexpensive commercial licence for consultants and small companies and a
> discount for "Not for Profit" state research organisations/ surveys.
>
> Get in touch directly if you need further information.
>
> Alan
>
>
> Dr Alan Gibbs
> Director
> Midland Valley Exploration
> 144 West George Street
> Glasgow
> G2 2HG
> tel: 44 (0) 141 332 2681
> fax: 44 (0) 141 332 6792
>
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> www.mve.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tectonics & structural geology discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Toshihiko Shimamoto
> Sent: 06 April 2011 07:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Good softwares for drawing geological maps and outcrop/texture
> sketches? (Toshi Shimamoto)
>
> Dear list subscribers
> 6 April 2011
> This is Toshi Shimamoto, now from Beijing.
>
> Would anyone give me information on softwares useful for drawing
> geological maps and outcrop/texture sketches? Not super-expensive, easy
> to use and above all having many good patterns in black and white
> suitable for showing formation, strata or any units you want to
> classify. I am involved with drilling into Longmenshan fault system that
> caused the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
>
> Please note that my new e-mail address and affiliation is given below. I
> retired from Hiroshima University one year ago and am now enjoying a new
> research opportunity in Beijing with a new low to high-velocity machine
> (plate to seismic velocities!).
> (Sorry for sending personal messages).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Toshi
>
> (My new e-mail address is given at the end.)
> Toshihiko Shimamoto
> State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics
> Institute of Geology
> China Earthquake Administration
> P. O. Box 9803
> Beijing 100029, China
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
Denis Gapais
Géosciences Rennes
UMR 6118 CNRS
Université de Rennes 1
35042 Rennes cedex
France
phone 33 2 23 23 67 36
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