Example Templates

Basic Biostrat

Micro
Paly
Nanno

Basic species distribution with analyses column. The Micro panel includes a panel total column. Uses "quant/semi-quant" abundance style, which means semi-quant abundances are printed as labels only.

Categories Closure

Micro
Paly

"Closure" diagram which shows the relative abundance of taxa in different categories. Occurrences are grouped by category, calculated as relative to the total micro count, and displayed as a stacked sawtooth diagram in the category colours.

To use groups instead of categories, create a group set containing the desired groups and restrict the outer panel to it. Then change "grouping" to "group".

Event Age

Micro
Paly
Nanno

Visually compares the actual and theoretical sequence of events. Columns show occurrence data for species linked to events in a composite standard (one column per event - some species may be repeated), sorted by event age. All picked events related to the taxon are shown in the column; the colour change indicates the position of the column event (a starker more pronounced colour change indicates a more confident event). Unpicked events show in white. Analyses are not distributed - they show at their true positions, aligned with event ticks.

Match "Dummy Composite" to your own composite standard (whose events must be linked to taxa).

Benthic Forams

Micro

Shows the ratio of agglutinating to calcareous foraminifera. The outer panel is restricted to the FOB category (benthic foraminifera); one inner panel per FOB subcategory represented in the data (commonly FOBA and FOBC). Counts of individual species are shown as a percentage of the total FOB count.

This panel may not work as intended if you have modified the category FOB or its subcategories.

Richness and Diversity

Micro
Paly
Nanno

Comparison of total count, species richness (number of distinct species), and two measures of diversity (Shannon and Fisher's Alpha). Analyses are not distributed.

You may need to adjust the horizontal scales.

Depth/Age

A basic depth/age well block template showing events, occurrences, event confidence and a simple composite standard header. The file also contains a scheme block; this is used as the header for the main panel. The composite standard in this header will only show events which occur in the well (the "filter" property). When plotting a well, you will need to set the horizontal (age) scale.

Match "Dummy Composite" to your own composite standard.

Depth/Age with interpretations

An extension of the above show show chronostratigraphy interpretations. This is a multi-block chart with a template block. The file contains a chart and 3 block templates: (1) the depth/age well block above, modified to show chronostratigraphy zones; (2) the depth/age scheme block header, as above, but also including a chronostratigraphy scheme panel; (3) a simple scheme block showing chronostratigraphy, to which you could add other panels such as sequence. When you open this chart as a tab for any well in Samples & Interpretations, the scheme block will be scaled using the well's depth/age curve: it will show you the chronostratigraphy you would expect to see given the current curve. It will update as you modify the curve.

Match "Dummy Composite" to your own composite standard. You could match GTS2012 to a different chronostratigraphy scheme.