Tetra-Plot: A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to perform tetrahedral diagrams

Authors

  • Ciro Cucciniello <p>Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell&rsquo;Ambiente e delle Risorse (DiSTAR)</p> <p>Universit&agrave; di Napoli Federico II, via Mezzocannone 8, 80134 Napoli, Italy</p>

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2451/2016PM625

Keywords:

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, Tetrahedron, Microsoft Excel®, Spreadsheet

Abstract

Tetra-plot is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet developed for the visualization of mineralogical and geochemical data in three dimensions. This program normalized and plots the data on tetrahedral diagrams. The tetrahedrons can be freely rotated in space. Tetra-Plot has been constructed without using a programing language and provides a set of functionalities that helps users to manipulate their data for 3D visualization. 

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Published

2016-09-12

Issue

Vol. 85 No. 2 (2016)

Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLE