Submitted as: development and technical paper 16 Dec 2020
Submitted as: development and technical paper | 16 Dec 2020
LoopStructural 1.0: Time aware geological modelling
- 1School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia
- 2Université d'Orléans, CNRS, BRGM, ISTO, UMR 7327, Orleans France
- 3Mineral Exploration Cooperative Research Centre, School of Earth Sciences, UWA, Perth, Australia
- 1School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia
- 2Université d'Orléans, CNRS, BRGM, ISTO, UMR 7327, Orleans France
- 3Mineral Exploration Cooperative Research Centre, School of Earth Sciences, UWA, Perth, Australia
Abstract. In this contribution we introduce LoopStructural, a new open source 3D geological modelling python package ( https://www.github.com/Loop3d/LoopStructural). LoopStructural provides a generic API for 3D geological modelling applications harnessing the core python scientific libraries pandas, numpy and scipy. Six different interpolation algorithms, including 3 discrete interpolators and 3 polynomial trend interpolators, can be used from the same model design. This means that different interpolation algorithms can be mixed and matched within a geological model allowing for different geological objects e.g. different conformable foliations, fault surfaces, unconformities to be modelled using different algorithms. Geological features are incorporated into the model using a time-aware approach, where the most recent features are modelled first and used to constrain the geometries of the older features. For example, we use a fault frame for characterising the geometry of the fault surface and apply each fault sequentially to the faulted surfaces. In this contribution we use LoopStructural to produce synthetic proof of concepts models and a 86 x 52 km model of the Flinders ranges in South Australia using map2loop.
Lachlan Grose et al.


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SC1: 'executive editor comment on gmd-2020-336', Astrid Kerkweg, 21 Dec 2020
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RC1: 'Referee Comment', Italo Goncalves, 05 Jan 2021
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AC3: 'Reply on RC1', Lachlan Grose, 14 Mar 2021
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AC3: 'Reply on RC1', Lachlan Grose, 14 Mar 2021
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RC2: 'Manuscript', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Feb 2021
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AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Lachlan Grose, 14 Mar 2021
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AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Lachlan Grose, 14 Mar 2021
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EC1: 'Next steps and usability improvements', Andrew Wickert, 06 Mar 2021
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AC1: 'Reply on EC1', Lachlan Grose, 14 Mar 2021
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EC2: 'Reply to AC1: Move technical discussion to GitHub', Andrew Wickert, 14 Mar 2021
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EC2: 'Reply to AC1: Move technical discussion to GitHub', Andrew Wickert, 14 Mar 2021
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AC1: 'Reply on EC1', Lachlan Grose, 14 Mar 2021
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