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pycpd

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Interactive data processing and analysis tool to compute the Curie point depth from aeromagnetic data using the method of Bouligand et al. (2009)

The user interface is really a work in progress for now. More to come soon.

Requirements

pycpd is programmed in python 3 and was tested on a mac running python 3.8 installed via macports.

The following python modules are needed to run the software

Cython file

Run the following command in the source directory in order to use the maximum entropy method to estimate the spectra (c code wrapped with cython)

python setup.py build_ext --inplace

Data

Examples can be found in the data directory.

Aeromagnetic Data

  • Aeromagnetic data should be gridded on a cartesian grid with spatial units in meters
  • Recognized formats are:
    • netCDF (COARDS compliant)
    • USGS sgd grid
    • Formats recognized by GDAL (not fully tested)
  • In order to display the map, the user is asked to enter coordinate projection information. This is done by giving a proj4 string (http://proj4.org), e.g. for coordinates projected in the Lambert conic conformal for Eastern Canada, the string is
 proj=lcc  lat_1=49  lat_2=77  lat_0=63  lon_0=-92  x_0=0  y_0=0  ellps=GRS80  towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0  units=m  no_defs
  • Alternatively, coordinate projection information can be retrieved by the GDAL driver if they are contained in the data file.

Borehole Data

Borehole data should be in a csv file with the same header as given in the Global Heat Flow Database of the International Heat Flow Commission (http://www.heatflow.und.edu/index2.html). An example file can be found at http://www.heatflow.und.edu/Global2010.csv. The first lines of this file are:

Data Number,Codes,Site Name,Latitude,Longitude,Elevation,minD,maxD,No. Temps,Gradient,No. Cond.,Conductivity,No.Heat Prod.,Heat Prod.,Heat Flow,No. sites,Year of Pub.,Reference,Comments,,
1,,SMU-KG2,44.4637,-111.7322,1987,28,66,,81,2,1.88,,,,,1983,Brott_etal1983,Williams_etal1995,,
2,,SMU-SP3,44.3278,-112.2128,1795,10,99,,55,5,2.06,,,,,1983,Brott_etal1983,Brott_etal1983,,
3,,SMU-SP2,44.3678,-112.1432,1859,25,70,,46,5,1.67,,,,,1983,Brott_etal1983,Brott_etal1983,,

The script mk_db.py can be used to extract the heat flow data for the area corresponding to your aeromagnetic data grid, and store it in a python shelf that pycpd understands.

References

@Article{bouligand09,
  Title                    = {Mapping {C}urie temperature depth in the western {U}nited {S}tates with a fractal model for crustal magnetization},
  Author                   = {Bouligand, Claire and Glen, Jonathan M. G. and Blakely, Richard J.},
  Journal                  = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
  Year                     = {2009},
  Month                    = nov,
  Number                   = {B11},
  Pages                    = {B11104--},
  Volume                   = {114},
  DOI                      = {10.1029/2009JB006494},
  ISSN                     = {0148-0227},
  Keywords                 = {aeromagnetic compilation, Curie temperature isotherm, western United States, Great Basin, 1517 Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism: Magnetic anomalies: modeling and interpretation, 3255 Mathematical Geophysics: Spectral analysis, 4440 Nonlinear Geophysics: Fractals and multifractals, 5418 Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Heat flow, 0903 Exploration Geophysics: Computational methods: potential fields, geothermie},
  Owner                    = {giroux},
  Publisher                = {AGU},
  Timestamp                = {2012.05.02},
  URL                      = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JB006494}
}

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