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TERNPLOT: TERNary PLOTting Excel 4.0 spreadsheet TERNPLOT USE

A brief description of the spreadsheet can be found in cells P5-X31  Marshall, Daniel (1996), Tern
The graph can be exploded to full screen size by double clicking on the
embedded graph located on top of cell I9 1. Place your data in the colum
Axes are as:
Modifiable plotting parameters
Min Max IncrmtTicklen
A-axis 0.00 100.00 10.00 5.00 Titles A,B & C can be replace
B-axis 0.00
Calcualted parameters DON'T CHANGE
B-axis ### ### 5.00 2. All the calculations are with
C-axis 0.00 ### ### 5.00
Five cells for each row of data
Raw data X-Plot Y-Plot Normalised data
Plotting parameters Qtz Alkali F Plag value value %A %B %C
90 10 0 33.75 ### ### ### 0.00
90 0 10 41.25 ### ### 0.00 ### TERNPLOT LIMITS
60 0 40 52.50 ### ### 0.00 ###
60 40 0 22.50 ### ### ### 0.00 1. You are limited to about 30
20 80 0 7.50 ### ### ### 0.00 but it's easy to change that. Jus
20 0 80 67.50 ### ### 0.00 ### to add more rows above the tri
5 0 95 73.13 5.00 5.00 0.00 ### which are at about cell F330 o
5 95 0 1.88 5.00 5.00 ### 0.00 the graph ranges to include the
0 100 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 ### 0.00
0 90 10 7.50 0.00 0.00 ### ### 2. Due to Excels ecentricities b
60 36 4 25.50 ### ### ### 4.00 and where they appear on the
60 4 36 49.50 ### ### 4.00 ### using the drawing tools in Cha
0 10 90 67.50 0.00 0.00 ### ### and then put the data in the co
0 35 65 48.75 0.00 0.00 ### ### Importing the ternary plot to d
60 14 26 42.00 ### ### ### ### Use Paste Special (Picture) in
0 35 65 48.75 0.00 0.00 ### ###
0 65 35 26.25 0.00 0.00 ### ###
20 52 28 28.50 ### ### ### ###
Streckeisen, A., 1967, Classification and nomenclature of igneous rocks. Nues Jarbuch fur Mineralogie Abhandlungen, v. 107, p. 144-240.

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Sample Qtz Alkali F Plag

Example 1 45.00 5.00 50.00 54.38 ### ### 5.00 ###
Example 2 50.00 11.00 39.00 48.00 ### ### ### ###
Example 3 60.00 7.00 38.00 48.57 ### ### 6.67 ###
Example 4 60.00 10.00 35.00 46.43 ### ### 9.52 ###

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A B C
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TERNPLOT USE

 Marshall, Daniel (1996), Ternplot: An Excel spreadsheet for Ternary diagrams, Computers and Geosciences, vol. 22 #6, p. 697-699.

1. Place your data in the columns titled A,B,C, (excel columns B,C & D)
Axes are as: A
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B C
Titles A,B & C can be replaced with your titles for clarity

2. All the calculations are within cells F14:I14 you will have to copy these

Five cells for each row of data you wish to plot

TERNPLOT LIMITS

1. You are limited to about 300 data points the way it's set up,
but it's easy to change that. Just use the insert command (shift cells down)
to add more rows above the triangle outline/labels data cells
which are at about cell F330 on. Excel should automatically increase the
the graph ranges to include the new rows and the triangle outline data

2. Due to Excels ecentricities between the position of objects on the screeen

and where they appear on the hardcopy it is difficult to place field boundaries
using the drawing tools in Chart. However, one can digitize the field boundaries
and then put the data in the column that draws the triangle outlines.
Importing the ternary plot to drawing programs such as Corel Draw can be done via the clipboard
Use Paste Special (Picture) in Corel Draw to paste the graph from the Clipboard

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