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Fig. 4 in APWP #5

Open dpastorgalan opened 8 years ago

dpastorgalan commented 8 years ago

Tiny stuff. in the Fig 4, when comparing inclination vs APWP inclination you call the difference "flattening". Although true for some cases, in many others it would be either just error (volcanics) or changes in latitude, for instance a microplate moving north. It won't be weird that many people is using that panel to see if there is a relative movement northwards of a microplate or so. I would let the name as "difference"

A possibility that requires some work but many people would like is adding the degrees simply called as "difference" and a column call flattening as factor (f) where: tan [I-APWP] = f * tan [I-sample]

If the flattening factor is kind of regular per type of sample (e.g. 0.7 for sandstones, 0.9 for limestones) then people will know that the difference is due to flattening. If growing in time, it would be likely moving in latitude and if random, just error.

Jollyfant commented 8 years ago

Ok good point. I need to rework this table anyway in the future..