RockWare Software: RockWorks

RockWorks Structural Geology Tools

RockWorks  offers a detailed suite of stereonet analysis tools and rose diagram and lineation analysis utilities.

Stereonet Data

  • A stereonet can be created from strike and dip (or dip-direction, dip-angle) data.
  • Plot linear, planar, or rake features on a stereonet.
  • Planar data can be plotted as great circles or poles normal to a plane.
RockWare Software: RockWorks
RockWorks stereonet with points, best-fit great circle, and legend

Stereonet Options

  • A stereonet can display unique symbols for any sample or group of samples.
  • A contoured stereonet can illustrate point density calculated by either a simple step function or the spherical Gaussian Technique.
RockWare Software: RockWorks
RockWorks stereonet with contours

Stereonet maps display downhole structural details at each borehole location.

RockWare Software: RockWorks
RockWorks stereonet map

Rose diagram maps plot linear features at sample locations.

RockWare Software: RockWorks
RockWorks rose diagram map

Rose diagrams illustrate the frequency of lineations in a given orientation.

  • Create full or half (northern 180-degrees) rose diagrams
  • Create rose diagrams from azimuth bearing or line endpoint data
  • Assign custom petal widths
  • Uniform or variable colors
RockWare Software: RockWorks
RockWorks Rose Diagrams with variable petal widths

Rose diagrams with uni- or bi-directional data distribution

  • Data (e.g. paleocurrents & fractures) may be rotated and/or filtered (by length and/or direction)
  • Optional statistical legend and mean ray and error, and easy modification of title, reference rays and circles
RockWare Software: RockWorks
RockWorks Rose Diagrams displaying data as bi- and uni-directional

Lineation Maps

  • Plot linear features on a map based on endpoint coordinates
  • Lineations may be color and/or line-style coded to distinguish different types of features (e.g. slickensided fractures vs. quartz veins)
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RockWorks simple lineation map

Lineation Grids

2-D and 3-D contour maps of lineation frequencies, lengths, intersections, or a weighted combination thereof.

RockWare Software: RockWorks
RockWorks lineation density contours