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TERNPLOT: TERNary PLOTting Excel 4.0 spreadsheet

A brief description of the spreadsheet can be found in cells P5-X31

The graph can be exploded to full screen size by double clicking on the
embedded graph located on top of cell I9

Modifiable plotting parameters

Min Max IncrmtTicklen
A-axis 0.00 100.00 10.00 5.00
B-axis 0.00
Calcualted parameters DON'T CHANGE
B-axis ### ### 5.00
C-axis 0.00 ### ### 5.00

Raw data X-Plot Y-Plot Normalised data

Plotting data (for chart) An Ab Or value value %A %B %C
90.00 10.00 0.00 33.75 ### ### ### 0.00
90.00 10.00 10.00 37.50 ### ### 9.09 9.09
90.00 0.00 10.00 41.25 ### ### 0.00 ###
90.00 10.00 10.00 37.50 ### ### 9.09 9.09
70.00 30.00 10.00 30.68 ### ### ### 9.09
70.00 30.00 0.00 26.25 ### ### ### 0.00
70.00 30.00 10.00 30.68 ### ### ### 9.09
50.00 50.00 10.00 23.86 ### ### ### 9.09
50.00 50.00 0.00 18.75 ### ### ### 0.00
50.00 50.00 10.00 23.86 ### ### ### 9.09
40.00 60.00 10.00 20.45 ### ### ### 9.09
37.00 63.00 12.00 20.42 ### ### ### ###
37.00 63.00 12.00 20.42 ### ### ### ###
31.00 68.00 16.00 20.54 ### ### ### ###
31.00 70.00 17.00 20.66 ### ### ### ###
31.00 70.00 0.00 11.51 ### ### ### 0.00
31.00 70.00 17.00 20.66 ### ### ### ###
16.00 84.00 15.00 15.00 ### ### ### ###
10.00 90.00 10.00 10.23 9.09 9.09 ### 9.09
10.00 90.00 0.00 3.75 ### ### ### 0.00
10.00 90.00 10.00 10.23 9.09 9.09 ### 9.09

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0.00 100.00 10.00 6.82 0.00 0.00 ### 9.09

10.00 0.00 100.00 71.59 9.09 9.09 0.00 ###
10.00 60.00 40.00 30.68 9.09 9.09 ### ###
12.20 65.00 35.00 27.47 ### ### ### ###
17.00 70.00 30.00 24.68 ### ### ### ###
23.00 75.00 25.00 22.26 ### ### ### ###
35.00 81.00 20.00 20.68 ### ### ### ###

15.00 90.00 54.00 29.01 9.43 9.43 ### ###

0.00 90.00 54.00 28.13 0.00 0.00 ### ###

Sample number (enter data below) An Ab Or

Fake data/example 20.00 70.00 10.00 15.00 ### ### ### ###
30.00 40.00 50.00 40.63 ### ### ### ###
60.00 20.00 40.00 43.75 ### ### ### ###

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A B C
37.50 ### ### 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00 ### 0.00
75.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 ###
37.50 ### ### 0.00 0.00

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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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A-B ticks
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5.00 ### 5.00 5.63 5.00

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