A Drawing System for Pole Diagram and Rose Diagram of Rock Mass Structural Surface

The distribution of structural planes is complex and irregular. How to quickly and effectively obtain the occurrence and distribution characteristics of structural planes and improve the efficiency of data processing is a key technical issue in structural plane analysis. The paper combined fuzzy equivalent clustering algorithm, rose diagram drawing method, and C++ language, developed a drawing system for the pole diagram and rose diagram of rock mass structural planes, and verified the practicability of the system through an engineering case analysis. In the article, the fuzzy equivalent clustering of the occurrence of structural planes, the drawing of pole diagram, and the statistical analysis of structural planes were realized based on the fuzzy equivalent clustering algorithm. The rapid drawing of the striking rose diagram, trending rose diagram, and dip rose diagram module were realized based on the rose diagram drawing method. The system integrated the structure plane pole diagram and the occurrence rose diagram together and realized the rapid analysis and drawing of the structure plane.

AUTOMATIC LINEAMENTS MAPPING AND EXTRACTION IN RELATIONSHIP TO NATURAL HYDROCARBON SEEPAGE IN UGWUEME, SOUTH-EASTERN NIGERIA

The study focus on the integration of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System for identification and delineation of lineaments in relation to natural hydrocarbon seepage, which occur in Ugwueme, South-Eastern Nigeria. To achieve this objective, remotely sensed data (ASTER Digital Elevation Model and Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS) were used to depict the surface expression of faults, folds and fractures which are expressed in the form of lineaments. The global positioning system (GPS) was also used for ground verification. The geology map of the study area, which is elucidated in the geology of Nigeria was used to show the distribution of rocks and other geologic structures. The delineation of lineament features was done automatically with the PCI Geomatica while the Rock ware was used to generate the Rose diagram for demonstration of the direction of the extracted lineaments. The classification of the lineaments density and the lineaments intersection analysis were categorized as very low, low, moderate, high and very high classes respectively. Areas classified as very high to high lineaments density are potential zone, which act as conduits for hydrocarbon seepage. The result shows that a total lineament frequency of 947 km and a total lineament length of 946 km were delineated from the satellite data. The result further shows that areas with high lineaments density are concentrated in the southwest, south, central and northern part of the study area while areas with low lineament density were found within the eastern part of Ugwueme. The Rose diagram highlight the major trend in the (NE-SW), (N-S) and (NW-SE) directions, and the minor trend in the (W-E) direction. These directional trends depict the directions of lineaments which act as conduits zones for hydrocarbon seepage in the region. The overall findings of the study shows that lineament density, lineament intersection and rose diagrams are concepts applicable in hydrocarbon oil and gas seepages.

Mining production as a factor of transformation of soils and soil cover

The article describes the component composition of the soil cover in the areas of mining granite material near Kuznechnoe, Leningrad region. Nonsoils formations take about 50 per cent of the study area. There are natural and varying degrees disturbed soils in this area around excavations of the quarry. Soils with Novic qualifiers are formed along the access roads to the quarry. There are stratified natural soils are diagnosed around the quarry in the direction of the rose diagram. Lithic Leptosol are formed at the crushed granite storage site. The degree of transformation of the component composition of the soil cover depends on anthropogenic activity in the territory adjacent to granite quarry has been defined. The article outlines the characteristics of the altered structure of the soil cover.

Use of seismic-based new rose diagram to determine the major sediment-supply direction of progradational systems

A conventional method for identifying sediment-supply directions is to characterize the seismic progradational reflection configuration, which is based mainly on qualitative observation of numerous seismic profiles. We have developed a more quantitative and practical way to determine the major sediment-supply direction (MSSD) using a new type of rose diagram based on seismic progradational sequence angles. In accordance with similar principles of the rose diagram used in structural geology, we have developed an analytical method and a workflow for a new rose diagram of seismic-based progradational sequence angles to determine MSSD. The Bozhong sag, a subbasin of the Bohai Bay Basin with two typical progradational sequences (I and II), provides a suitable example to analyze MSSD and test the new method. Our result indicates that the MSSD of the two progradational sequences (I and II) corresponds to azimuths of 10°–20° and 340°–350°, respectively, intuitively indicating two sequences derived from different provenance-transport systems. The new rose diagram of seismic progradational angles offers a powerful and quantitative method for seismic-based sedimentary provenance and paleocurrent analysis.

Lineament Extraction and Analysis on Jarawa Complex, Northcentral Nigeria Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

This study was carried out to extract and analyze the lineaments within the Jarawa Complex of North Central Nigeria using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Nigeria SAT – X image and ASTER GDEM, where used for mapping, extraction and analyses of the lineaments. Linear stretching and edges enhancement filter were applied to enhance the contrast and edge of the linear features using ILWIS 3.4 software. The enhanced image was visually interpreted and lineaments were extracted using on – screen digitizing in ArcGIS 10.0 environment. A total of 108 lineaments were extracted from the study area. The extracted lineaments were analyzed to determine lengths, distribution, density and orientation in order to generate lineament map, lineament density map, typology map, hill shaded relief map, drainage pattern map and rose diagram. From the results obtained, the lineaments ranged from 0.52 – 7.18 km in length and are spatially distributed within the study area. The northwestern and northcentral parts of the study area are characterized by high lineament densities which serve as conduits for mineral deposits. GEOrient software was used to plot the rose diagram from which the directional frequencies where obtained. The dominant lineament trend is NW – SE, however, two secondary trends are obvious in NNW – SSE and N – S direction.