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Reproducing the Piper Trilinear Diagram in Rectangular Coordinates
Author(s) -
Ray Ranjan Kumar,
Mukherjee Rumi
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
groundwater
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1745-6584
pISSN - 0017-467X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2008.00471.x
Subject(s) - diagram , piper , set (abstract data type) , computer science , graphics , mathematics , geometry , algorithm , computer graphics (images) , statistics , geology , programming language , paleontology
Though several alternatives/modifications to the Piper diagram are available, the Piper diagram is still the most common way of representing chemical analyses. The present note shows how to reproduce the Piper trilinear diagram in rectangular coordinates retaining all the essential features of the trilinear diagram. In this form, it can be generated using commonly used graphics packages without requiring specialized software. A sample data set of six samples from Gurur watershed, Chhattisgarh, India, was used to illustrate the method. The patterns of points produced in the trilinear Piper diagram and the reproduced Piper diagram in rectangular coordinates are essentially identical.