Stereographic, Rose, and Lineament Diagrams

For structural charts, Aabel worksheets support variable types trend, dip/plunge, and azimuth, and you can
defineif a variable of type azimuth is the azimuth of dip.
Stereographic Scatter and Contour Diagrams
Rose Diagrams (Circular Histogram)
Lineament Diagrams
Exploratory Analysis of Orientational and Directional Data

Stereographic Scatter and Contour Diagrams

Aabel supports trend, dip/plunge, and azimuth variables, and includes the following stereographic scatter
chart types:

Stereographic scatter graphs with equal angle projection using an equatorial or polar grid. The top
image below is an example of an equal angle projection using an equatorial grid).
Stereographic scatter graphs with equal area projection using an equatorial or polar grid.
Stereographic contour graphs with equal angle projection using an equatorial or polar grid.
Stereographic contour graphs with equal area projection using an equatorial or polar grid. The
bottom image below is an example of an equal area projection using an equatorial grid
With a few clicks of the mouse, you can:

Modify the projection, density contour intervals, or the plot variables

Generate tables for representing information regarding the projection type, number of
measurements, spherical variance, and normalized eigenvalues and eigenvectors
The data used to plot the stereographic diagrams below are from the USGS Open File Report 01-428,
regarding outcrop structural data from southeastern Alaska.
A Stereographic scatter Chart With Equal Angle Projection

A Stereographic Contour Chart With Equal Area Projection

Rose Diagrams (Circular Histogram)

Aabel supports trend and azimuth variables, and includes:

Full circle rose diagrams with area-proportional frequency (symmetric and asymmetric)
Full circle rose diagrams with length-proportional frequency (symmetric and asymmetric)
Half circle rose diagrams with area-proportional frequency
Half circle rose diagrams with length-proportional frequency
Selecting rose histogram bins will highlight the corresponding data on other diagrams and in the source
worksheet. Free-hand selection of bins/petals will allow you to generate new worksheets from the selected
bin data.
With a few clicks of the mouse, you can:

Modify the plot type or the plot variables

Generate tables for representing information regarding the number of measurements, mean
direction, and circular variance
Full Circle and Half Circle Rose Diagrams

Lineament Diagrams
Aabel supports trend and azimuth variables, and includes:

Full circle structural lineaments (symmetric)

Full circle structural lineaments (asymmetric)
Half circle structural lineaments
The data used to plot the lineament diagrams below are from glacial striations measured in an area of
southern Finland (source of data: Davis, J.C., 2002).

Exploratory Analysis of Orientational and Directional Data

Aabel exploratory tools such as data brushing (to view data interrelationships) and step-wise X-zooming (to
zoom into a region of data), are available to stereographic scatter and Rose diagrams.
Exploring Orientational and Directional Data