Dip and strike

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Colinmazengarb
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Dip and strike

Post by Colinmazengarb »

Hi Daniel and others,

I have tried the fit plane function from which dip and strike are automatically calculated. I am not sure that the dip is being calculated correctly. Specifically I have a gently dipping surface and yet dip = 80 degrees (near vertical according to the convention for structural geology). I would believe 10 degrees is more like it. The dip value should be calculated from horizontal. Can someone else check that this is happening to them as well?
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Re: Dip and strike

Post by daniel »

Indeed the displayed value is '90 - dip'. As I'm not a structural geologist, I totally missed that ;).

The bug has already been fixed on the Github repository. It we'll be available in the next release ... sorry about that.
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Colinmazengarb
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Re: Dip and strike

Post by Colinmazengarb »

Daniel,
many thanks for that.
cheers
Colin
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