Spinel web: an interactive web application for visualizing the chemical composition of spinel group minerals
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Spinel web: an interactive web application for visualizing the chemical composition of spinel group minerals ´ Ganuza1 · Gabriela Ferracutti2 · M. Florencia Gargiulo2 · Kresimir Matkovi´c3 · Antonella S. Antonini1 · Mar´ıa Lujan 4 2 ¨ Eduard Groller · Ernesto A. Bjerg · Silvia M. Castro1 Received: 22 June 2020 / Accepted: 23 October 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The spinel group minerals provide useful information regarding the geological environment in which the host rocks were formed, constituting excellent petrogenetic indicators, and guides in the search for mineral deposits of economic interest. In this article, we present the Spinel Web, a web application to visualize the chemical composition of spinel group minerals. Spinel Web integrates most of the diagrams commonly used for analyzing the chemical characteristics of the spinel group minerals. It incorporates parallel coordinates and a 3D representation of the spinel prisms. It also provides coordinated views and appropriate interactions for users to interact with their datasets. Spinel Web also supports semi-automatic categorization of the geological environment of formation through a standard Web browser. Keywords Geology · Tectonic settings · Spinel group minerals · Visualization · Web application · 3D visualization
Introduction In Geological Sciences, one of the main goals is to reconstruct the geological environments where rocks were formed and the events that subsequently affected them. This allows geologists to understand the geological evolution of the Earth and, therefore, identify regions where natural resources are located, identify areas that present geological risks to human life or to the implementation of engineering works, etc. In order to characterize a particular geologic region in terms of its tectonic setting, we focus on the study of a particular suite of rocks, mafic and ultramafic rocks carrying spinel group minerals. Each spinel sample is characterized by 11 analyzed major chemical elements
Communicated by: H. Babaie Antonella S. Antonini
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VyGLab Research Laboratory, DCIC, UNS, Institute for Computer Science and Engineering (CONICET-UNS), Bah´ıa Blanca, Argentina
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(those whose content is greater than 0.01% by weight expressed as oxide), and by 22 metadata, called endmembers, calculated as combinations of the major chemical elements. However, only 8 of these end-members are routinely used by geologists for representation in specific graphics (see Table 1). It is common to represent the spinels composition in a prismatic space called spinel prism, a compositional space that represents the solid solution between six endmembers. The spinel prism supports two representations: the Magnetite Prism and the Ulv¨ospinel Prism. The spinel prism can be divided into different fields that represent the different tectonic environments where this group of minerals may be forme
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