TY - JOUR
T1 - WinClastour-a Visual Basic program for tourmaline formula calculation and classification
AU - Yavuz, Fuat
AU - Yavuz, Vural
AU - Sasmaz, Ahmet
PY - 2006/10
Y1 - 2006/10
N2 - WinClastour is a Microsoft® Visual Basic 6.0 program that enables the user to enter and calculate structural formulae of tourmaline analyses obtained both by the electron-microprobe or wet-chemical analyses. It is developed to predict cation site-allocations at the different structural positions, as well as to estimate mole percent of the end-members of the calcic-, alkali-, and X-site vacant group tourmalines. Using the different normalization schemes, such as 24.5 oxygens, 31 anions, 15 cations (T+Z+Y), and 6 silicons, the present program classifies tourmaline data based on the classification scheme proposed by Hawthorne and Henry [1999. Classification of the minerals of the tourmaline group. European Journal of Mineralogy 11, 201-215]. The present program also enables the user Al-Mg disorder between Y and Z sites. WinClastour stores all the calculated results in a comma-delimited ASCII file format. Hence, output of the program can be displayed and processed by any other software for general data manipulation and graphing purposes. The compiled program code together with a test data file and related graphic files, which are designed to produce a high-quality printout from the Grapher program of Golden Software, is approximately 3 Mb as a self-extracting setup file.
AB - WinClastour is a Microsoft® Visual Basic 6.0 program that enables the user to enter and calculate structural formulae of tourmaline analyses obtained both by the electron-microprobe or wet-chemical analyses. It is developed to predict cation site-allocations at the different structural positions, as well as to estimate mole percent of the end-members of the calcic-, alkali-, and X-site vacant group tourmalines. Using the different normalization schemes, such as 24.5 oxygens, 31 anions, 15 cations (T+Z+Y), and 6 silicons, the present program classifies tourmaline data based on the classification scheme proposed by Hawthorne and Henry [1999. Classification of the minerals of the tourmaline group. European Journal of Mineralogy 11, 201-215]. The present program also enables the user Al-Mg disorder between Y and Z sites. WinClastour stores all the calculated results in a comma-delimited ASCII file format. Hence, output of the program can be displayed and processed by any other software for general data manipulation and graphing purposes. The compiled program code together with a test data file and related graphic files, which are designed to produce a high-quality printout from the Grapher program of Golden Software, is approximately 3 Mb as a self-extracting setup file.
KW - Al-Mg disorder
KW - Classification
KW - Electron-microprobe
KW - Normalization
KW - Tourmaline
KW - Wet-chemical
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33746681962&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cageo.2005.10.021
DO - 10.1016/j.cageo.2005.10.021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33746681962
SN - 0098-3004
VL - 32
SP - 1156
EP - 1168
JO - Computers and Geosciences
JF - Computers and Geosciences
IS - 8
ER -