What does PaleoMac do?
- Directionnal data (DIR type) on the sphere. These maybe paleomagnetic vectors distributions, but any distribution of [Dec, Inc] of lines, or [Strike, Dip] of planes, with various parameters, can be handled as well
- Paleopoles data (VGP type) or any point on the Earth. Jointly, the application handles plate contours and rotation parameters, to produce paleo-reconstructions.
- Demagnetization data (PMD type), which are typically sets of {X,Y,Z} magnetization components as a function of demag. steps.
- Fisher, Great-circle, Small-Circle etc. statistics and statistical tests on DIR and VGP data
- Rotations on the sphere (Local coordinates, or Geocentric coordinates) and plate reconstructions. An easy and flexible way to compute, test and produce plate tectonics solutions.
- Component adjustement, Fisher and Great-Circles on PMD data
- Output of results in either specific DIR files, or in ASCII files
- on DIR type data:
- Stereoplots (stereographic or equal-area)
- Density plots
- Stepwise unfolding plots
- on VGP type data:
- Earth projections (equal area, stereographic, orthographic, Mercator, Mollweide, Hammer-Aitoff, Cylindrical Equivalent and Rectangular)
- Map zooming (equal area, stereographic, Mercator, and Lambert conical conformal projections)
- on PMD type data:
- Orthogonal (Zijderveld) plots, allowing to perform Principal Component Analysis
- Stereoplots (stereographic or equal-area)
- Moment, Susceptibility and {X,Y,Z} decay curves