HELP: Remarks - Parse Texture/Lithology from Text
The best way to enter the other rock image data is to enter your description of the bed in the Remarks / Notes / Comments Data Entry Dialog and build a list of bed descriptions and then select the " Compute other data entry data types from Remarks" button.

This will allow the program to automatically use the geological description lookup xml files to parse your text into the rock image tracks. This basically saves time and effort, instead of entering each track separately.
A Texture / Lithology example "very sandy slightly argillaceous dolomitic limestone; marine abundant trilobites, echinoderm fragments, corals, few bryozoa, broken brachiopods; very pale blue (5B8/2) color with moderate blue (5B5/6) stains; pyrite nodules and concretions, erosional bed". The phrase "very sandy slightly argillaceous dolomitic limestone" will be parsed into texture / lithology symbol and level. Limestone is the main lithology, very sandy is a primary modifier. The Parse engine looks for the main lithology and then searches for the first modifier if present to the main lithology. The parse engine searches for a texture in the lookup xml file, as follows,
  • very sandy modifier to the main lithology
  • slightly argillaceous ignored
  • dolomitic ignored
  • limestone main lithology

very sandy limestone is assiged a level of 6 and since the main lithology is limestone it is considered a Carbonate Rock Type. The texture parse engine is looking for 1 main lithology type and if present 1 modifier to the lithology. If there are any secondary modifiers they are ignored.

A list of Texture/Lithology Symbols & Background colors are stored in a Texture XML lookup file and illustrated as follows, Texture/Lithology Symbols/Colors there are a number of sources for lithologic symbols, but for this program the bulk of the symbols use Shell Oil's 1995 Legend1 and the Federal Geographic Data Committee lithologic patterns2.

References:

(1) STANDARD LEGEND 1995 SHELL INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION B.V., THE HAGUE

(2) Section 37 -- Lithologic Patterns FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee) Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization.

Author: John R. Victorine jvictor@kgs.ku.edu